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 6 of 7. 5 Comments.
Server Mitigations Ubuntu 20.04 Reference
Server Mitigations Ubuntu 20.04 Reference

Facebook's RocksDB database software is especially hard hit on the older Xeon CPUs being benchmarked.

Server Mitigations Ubuntu 20.04 Reference
Server Mitigations Ubuntu 20.04 Reference
Server Mitigations Ubuntu 20.04 Reference
Server Mitigations Ubuntu 20.04 Reference

The Memcached performance remains affected by these mitigations even on the newer CPUs.

Server Mitigations Ubuntu 20.04 Reference

Likewise, Nginx still shows a measurable difference in performance.

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