Kevin,
The team is aware of Meltdown and Spectre. Due to the late availability of
production-ready test patches (they became available today) we started
today working on evaluating the impact of applying these patches. The focus
would be both on any potential functional impacts (especially to the
While I'm not fully versed on the vulnerability or the proposed fixes,
my understanding is that most of the performance impact from the fix is
around having kernel memory completely separately from a process's
user-space, which means every system call will have cache/TLB misses.
This might mean
Hi All,
Here is a repeat post of my question on GSS 2.0.7 compatibility with RHEL
6.7. FAQ is contradictory. I know GSS/ESS is usually quite sensitive to
use a specific RHEL minor version). And at this point, RHEL 6.5 isn't
really supported anymore (no updates provided).
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