Meltdown and spectre

[dnutan (Marc)]

Some benchmarks by Red Hat:
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/7nyhc5/meltdown_and_spectre/ds5m76i/
Phoronix has been running some other tests with Redis, Postgresql…

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Intel kernel memory leaking

Intel has actually a securityhole. Microsoft and Linux programmers try to program security updates for it, but this means lower performance after updating the system. More information you can find at: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/