Debian Project Warns: Turn off Hyperthreading with Skylake and Kaby Lake wow this suck

in technology •  8 years ago 

Debian developers have issued an advisory to disable hyper-threading with Intel and Skylake- Kaby Lake generation processors. The CPUs can cause problems under certain conditions, in fact on all operating systems.

They advside you to turn it off in the BIOS, and thus forfeit the extra performance you gain. It seems there is s defect for the CPUs in question that can cause compiler- and application crashes, unexpected behavior of programs and incorrect output software:

Continue reading: http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/debian-project-warns-turn-off-hyperthreading-with-skylake-and-kaby-lake.html

intel.png

Authors get paid when people like you upvote their post.
If you enjoyed what you read here, create your account today and start earning FREE STEEM!
Sort Order:  

That's crazy!