[GTALUG] Meltdown performance hit.

[Greg Martyn]

"Big update here! Looks like AWS/EC2 just deployed an updated #Spectre
patch (perhaps Retpoline-ish), addressing high IO HVM instance performance
issues! Big credit to Amazon for addressing performance needs & concerns so
quickly and diligently. Thank you. cc @_msw_"

https://twitter.com/chanian/status/951891326366175232

On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 7:45 AM o1bigtenor via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 11:52 PM, ac via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 11 Jan 2018 23:35:23 -0500
>> Alvin Starr via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:
>> <snip>
>> > >> 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
>> ---
>>
>
> Maybe time to renegotiate pricing?
>
> Dee
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