OT: Evidence of A Intel Virtual Memory Vulnerability

[Jack Stouffer]

On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 at 15:51:35 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> 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

Attack details published by Google Project Zero with official 
names https://meltdownattack.com