[GTALUG] Meltdown performance hit.

[ac]

On Thu, 11 Jan 2018 23:35:23 -0500
Alvin Starr via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
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> >> A bit of searching shows that others are complaining about the same
> >> problem.
> > That does look like a substantial hit. What happens if you try the
> > workload on a new VM? Roll the dice until you get lucky maybe?
> This server is not so bad but it really shows the change in
> performance. The one that keeled over on me was on a small instance
> and I had to move it to a large instance.
> I did a bunch of database clean and hopefully that will be enough to
> be able to put it back on a small instance.
> Otherwise my costs at AWS till jump significantly.
> 
am also seeing major perfomance hits at other providers, costs are
going to be a lot higher for some projects