SoylentNews first reported the vulnerabilities on January 3. Since then, we have had a few stories addressing different reports about these vulnerabilities. Now that it is over two weeks later and we are *still* dealing with reboots, I am curious as to what our community's experience has been.
What steps have you taken, if any, to deal with these reports? Be utterly proactive and install every next thing that comes along? Do a constrained roll out to test a system or two before pushing out to other systems? Wait for the dust to settle before taking any steps?
What providers (system/os/motherboard/chip) have been especially helpful... or non-helpful? How has their response affected your view of that company?
What resources have you been using to check on the status of fixes for your systems? Have you found a site that stands above the others in timeliness and accuracy?
How has this affected your purchasing plans... and your expectations on what you could get for selling your old system? Are you now holding off on purchasing something new?
(Score: 2) by inertnet on Friday January 19 2018, @07:49PM (1 child)
It would have been nice to be able to measure actual performance loss. But I assume, like me, not many people have bothered to benchmark their systems before the updates were installed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 20 2018, @09:19PM
> measure actual performance loss.
Apples.
> like me, not many people have bothered to benchmark their systems
Oranges.
Benchmarks might tell you what it's like under particular stresses. But they won't reveal cache miss rate changes causing every 13th frame to drop from a particular codec's CPU-processed video, giving a strange stutter. And so forth.