Meltdown / Spectre and Aerospike

The Meltdown and Spectre CPU bugs require OS and cloud hypervisor patches to ensure data security, but these patches can cause performance issues such as increased CPU use and higher latency. Aerospike has seen few impacts on its customer base due to its low CPU and system call usage. This blog provides guidance for monitoring, analyzing, and mitigating the performance aspects of the required security patches in various environments, including Amazon cloud and bare metal/hybrid cloud deployments. Recommended actions include monitoring latency and CPU load, upgrading kernels, optimizing networks, enabling hugepages, and considering disabling PTI patches for non-personally identifiable data.