Meridian performance with Meltdown and Spectre patches

Background

On January 3, 2018, security researchers revealed three potential security vulnerabilities named Meltdown and Spectre. These vulnerabilities can be mitigated by installing software or microcode patches but the patches can affect overall computer performance. For details, see Understanding the performance impact of Spectre and Meltdown mitigations on Windows Systems by Microsoft.

Description

Accruent is aware of this issue and does not expect its products to be adversely affected any more or less than any other software running on Windows operating systems. We have not received any reports from customers of serious problems with Meridian Enterprise attributed to the patches. We have not performed specific performance tests for this issue due to the many possible combinations of hardware, BIOS, operating systems, and patches. If you discover undesirable side effects that are unique to Meridian Enterprise and that you can trace to the installation of the patches, please contact Accruent Technical Support.