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Linux 7.1 Will Power Off The System By Default If A Fatal ACPI Error Occurs

Phoronix - Tue, 03/03/2026 - 02:00
An important default kernel behavior change worth noting in advance for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel is that the system will attempt to power-off automatically if encountering any fatal ACPI errors. Up to now the Linux kernel has just logged ACPI fatal errors...

Linux 7.0 Shows Off Nice Performance Gains For Databases In Small AMD EPYC Servers

Phoronix - Mon, 03/02/2026 - 23:20
Last week with my ongoing testing of the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel I found nice performance improvements for PostgreSQL and other workloads when testing on a 128-core AMD EPYC 9755 "Turin" server. Curious if those wins were due to optimizations focused on better scalability with today's "big" servers, I also ran some comparison Linux 7.0 benchmarks on the smaller AMD EPYC 4005 class servers too. Some nice wins carried over...

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