Reply to post: Re: the thing is they had all these chips running at 25%

Meltdown/Spectre fixes made AWS CPUs cry, says SolarWinds

GreenReaper
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Re: the thing is they had all these chips running at 25%

I'd be a little surprised if cores were the limit. It's more often RAM or I/O performance. That's why servers tend to have so many RAM slots. Even tasks you think of as "compute" can be bottlenecked elsewhere.

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