Drastic performance impacts with kernel-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6 and microcode_ctl-1.17-25.2.el6_9
Issue
- https://access.redhat.com/articles/3307751 describes that performance impacts to security patches which ranges between 1-20%. However, an application impacts about 40%.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- kernel-2.6.32-696.18.7.el6 or later
- microcode_ctl-1.17-25.2.el6_9
- Firmware version of Cisco UCS: 2.0(13e)
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