OT: Evidence of A Intel Virtual Memory Vulnerability

[Jack Stouffer]

The gist of the story is that an Intel vulnerability is requiring 
OS vendors to institute Page Table Isolation in their kernels. 
This fix has an _across the board_ 5-7% slowdown on Intel chips.

Worse yet, programs which do lots of syscalls will see around a 
30% slowdown or more, including compilation.

AMD is not effected.

Details and discussion:
Reddit: 
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/7nl8r0/intel_bug_incoming/
HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16046636