Re: Meltdown and spectre

There absolutely should be an OEL patch for this - for the RH kernel they'll probably take upstream - for UEK I'd expect an Oracle patch. I'd expect Oracle shops to be regression testing to determine the likely impact on RDBMS (and java app for that matter) performance.

On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 3:40 PM, Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> I was wondering the same thing. But I dont think its up to Oracle to patch
> this, its going to be at the OS and firmware level. But everything I read
> says that its going be a huge performance hit, anywhere from 10-50%, and
> the higher end will be on IO bound systems.
>
> On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 9:33 AM, Fred Habash <fmhabash_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Checked Oracle security bulletins but didn't find anything related. Did
>> Oracle release an official statement for these vulnerabilities at least for
>> the RDBMS and OEL.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
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