Firmware Updates and Initial Performance Data for Data Center Systems

Re:Firmware Updates and Initial Performance Data for Data Ce... by programbreeding on Thursday January 18, 2018 @06:13AM (#16176232)

>As I noted in my blog post last week, while the firmware updates are effective at mitigating exposure to the security issues, customers have reported more frequent reboots on firmware updated systems.

It does go on to say they have been able to reproduce the issue and are making progress towards finding the cause.

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Re:Firmware Updates and Initial Performance Data for Data Ce... by Filligree on Thursday January 18, 2018 @07:14AM (#16176500)

"Install this patch, and your servers will start regularly crashing."

Let's say it like it is.

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Re:Firmware Updates and Initial Performance Data for Data Ce... by babilen on Thursday January 18, 2018 @09:20AM (#16177163)

Absolutely! They phrased it in such a way that it sounds as if it is normal that computers just randomly reboot and as if the firmware upgrade simply increases that frequency.

Random reboots should really never happen and the fact that Intel is trying to imply otherwise is deeply worrying.

We all know that things go wrong. The problem is rarely that mistakes are made, but rather that people aren't open about them and don't simply provide concise technical analyses.

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