Ubuntu Server 20.04 CPU Security Mitigation Performance Impact

Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 16 April 2020 at 03:00 PM EDT. Page 5 of 7. 5 Comments.
Server Mitigations Ubuntu 20.04 Reference

The KeyDB multi-threaded fork of Redis also sees hits that are especially hard on the older server CPUs.

Server Mitigations Ubuntu 20.04 Reference
Server Mitigations Ubuntu 20.04 Reference

Redis itself also is easy to find slowdowns from these security mitigations.

Server Mitigations Ubuntu 20.04 Reference
Server Mitigations Ubuntu 20.04 Reference

Likewise, the PostgreSQL database server impact remains quite pronounced.

Server Mitigations Ubuntu 20.04 Reference

Or even SQLite.

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