Nex machina servers experience problems after upgrading for meltdown and specter

Meltdown and Specter continue to wreak havoc, solving these vulnerabilities does not pose a performance problem at home, but the same cannot be said for servers. First it was Fortnite and now it is Nex Machina who suffers from problems in its servers based on Intel processors.

Nex Machina suffers problems from Meltdown and Specter

Servers and data centers are especially sensitive to the loss of performance caused by patches that fix the Meltdown and Specter vulnerabilities. This is because these computers work with virtual machines, and many changes are made between the user and kernel modes of the processor, this causes a lot of performance loss after applying the security patches.

First patch performance tests for Meltdown and Specter

The Nex Machina servers have seen how the CPU usage has skyrocketed after applying the patches for Meltdown and Specter, this has caused many players to have problems accessing the game. For now it is said that the load on the processors is four or five times higher than it was before applying the correction patches. Fortunately, work is already being done to find a solution as soon as possible, although it seems that it will not be as easy as many hope.

The following graphic shows how CPU usage has skyrocketed on game servers after updating the system. Unfortunately for Intel, many other online games with servers based on their processors are experiencing similar problems.

Intel processors are especially vulnerable and the only ones affected by Meltdown, at least according to what is known so far. This is because these processors make more intensive use of speculative execution. To add fuel to the fire, Meltdown is the most serious vulnerability and the easiest to exploit.

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