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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*): "@halcy@icosahedron.website @whitequark@treehouse.…" - Infosec Exchange

@halcy@icosahedron.website @whitequark@treehouse.systems @hayley@social.applied-langua.ge @casandro@f-ckendehoelle.de We also hit something like this with CPU affinity work in FreeBSD. Adding CPU affinity in a 24-core build machine made builds take longer. It turned out that, on modern systems, snopping a peer's L1 cache is *really* fast, so the cost of a process migrating between cores was very low. But each job was sitting in hot loops that heated up specific bits of the cores. Thermal throttl