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Well this promises to be fun, especially for cloud providers (and those running instances on the cloud, who now potentially get to suffer through host instabili
by Twirrim 9y ago
Well this promises to be fun, especially for cloud providers (and those running instances on the cloud, who now potentially get to suffer through host instability)
- jlgaddis 9y agoIntel's adaptation of Netflix's Chaos Monkey [0]? [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Monkey https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Monkey
- numbsafari 9y agoI was thinking the same thing as I read this. “Chaos engineering” has served some customers very well here. From speaking in my circles, I get the impression that those of us without our own data centers to worry about are much better off than those who do.
- sebazzz 9y agoIt is not clear if Xeon server processors are affected.
- Twirrim 9y agoIntel has made such a complicated product line it's really difficult to figure out what is and isn't affected. As per the Lenovo update mentioned elsewhere in this thread: "*3 – (Broadwell E, H, U/Y; Haswell standard, Core Extreme, ULT) Symptom: Intel has received reports of unexpected page faults, which they are currently investigating. Out of an abundance of caution, Intel requested Lenovo to stop distributing this firmware." So far as I can figure, Xeons are covered by "Haswell standard". Core Extreme was those ridiculously overpriced i7s. ULT is the "Ultra Low TDP" chips. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haswell_%28microarchitecture%29#Server_processors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haswell_%28microarchitecture%2... It looks like from the desktop and mobile processor fields, if there is anything special about the core they put a suffix on denoting it, so Xeon may well classify as "Haswell standard"?