Thread: Intel Skylake hardware failures

This might interest some members.

It has been announced by Intel's latest Skylake CPU has serious bug which hangs applications with complex threading
whichpostgresql could *potentially* fall into. I don't know if anyone has experienced this or not.  


"Hello All,
Intel has identified an issue that potentially affects the 6th Gen Intel® Core™ family of products. This issue only
occursunder certain complex workload conditions, like those that may be encountered when running applications like
Prime95.In those cases, the processor may hang or cause unpredictable system behavior. Intel has identified and
releaseda fix and is working with external business partners to get the fix deployed through BIOS." 

https://communities.intel.com/thread/96157?start=15&tstart=0


Good luck