Ubuntu Server 20.04 CPU Security Mitigation Performance Impact
Written by Michael Larabel in Operating Systems on 16 April 2020 at 03:00 PM EDT. Page 6 of 7. 5 Comments.
Facebook's RocksDB database software is especially hard hit on the older Xeon CPUs being benchmarked.
The Memcached performance remains affected by these mitigations even on the newer CPUs.
Likewise, Nginx still shows a measurable difference in performance.