[Discuss] Port Scanning

[markw at mohawksoft.com (markw at mohawksoft.com)]

> On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 18:12:25 -0400
> markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
>
>> Without getting into too much detail, their SVC server product had a
>> real-time polling process that maintained timers on various
>> processes, if the processing took too long, the system would
>> "fail-over" to the other node. They were getting too many timeouts
>> with hyper-threads enabled.
>
> Interesting. I suppose this goes hand in hand with dynamic frequency
> scaling (CPU Turbo Boost) causing high thermal loads and power
> throttling under sustained compute loads.

Yup, that was one of the issues.