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Re:Leaving htop running freezes macOS High Sierra by tomjakubowski on Friday January 05, 2018 @10:05PM (#16083616)
Unfortunately, it seems Apple has forced us to choose between Meltdown mitigation and a somewhat working OS. The recent Sierra security updates didn’t include the Meltdown patch.

https://twitter.com/theregister/status/949358083431546880

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Re:Leaving htop running freezes macOS High Sierra by sgolestane on Saturday January 06, 2018 @12:00AM (#16083937)
Apple has actually backported the fix to Sierra and even El Capitan. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208331
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Re:Leaving htop running freezes macOS High Sierra by bangonkeyboard on Saturday January 06, 2018 @12:15AM (#16083969)
The tweet in the post you replied to points out that the page that you linked to was altered today to no longer say the fixes extended to those two.
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Re:Leaving htop running freezes macOS High Sierra by alwillis on Saturday January 06, 2018 @01:25AM (#16084135)
My educated guess, based on 14-years working for MIT’s IT department: the fixes for Sierra and El Capitan broke something important, so they got pulled.

When they get fixed, they’ll be re-released…

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