[PragmaticPulp]

> Back then intel were pressured into a recall, today we seem too willing to put up with being sold broken stuff.

This bug only applies to servers that haven’t been rebooted for 3 years and have the CC6 sleep state enabled. It can be worked around by disabling CC6 sleep state or rebooting once every 3 years.

If you think operators of these servers can’t be bothered to update and reboot their machines once in 3 years or change a single BIOS setting, what makes you think they’d be interested in tearing down their servers, physically replacing the CPU, and reassembling all of them with the associated downtime and inevitable accidental damage to some units? Nothing about that makes sense from a business perspective.

[xp84]

I’m picturing a long 50’ aisle filled with racks and a guy with a huge box marked “replacement CPUs” and a screwdriver.

Good lord, can you imagine how long just a few of those would take in a data center?

[acomjean]

I remember coming to work one morning and having staff at two tables with boxes of RSA keys, and swapping everyones...

(they replaced 40 million of those things..)

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/06/rsa-f...

[lanstin]

The old every CPU is sacred idea lives on.