On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 3:59 PM, Alvin Starr via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:

I cannot prove this yet but I believe there has been a big performance hit in the cloud providers.

I use amazon for a couple of lightly loaded servers

Attached is the traffic graph from the last 2 weeks.

Nothing has changed but for the reboot required by AWS as part of their patch roll out.

The reboot was at Tue Jan 2 09:02.

It may be just coincidence but the huge step-wise increase in base load is just crazy given nothing on my side changed but for the reboot.

So I take exception with Intel's comment that most folks will not notice the performance hit.

Attached .png shows up here as a checkerboard.

Dee