Hi!
I was wondering if there is a way to disable Spectre and Meltdown patches. Some sort of boot flag maybe?
Thank you 🙂
And before someone says something about security or about how little performance I loose in regular use cases. I know. I accept the risks. It's my product. I want to use it in it's full potential. Well... I need to use it in it's full potential.
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch,Early 2015), macOS High Sierra (10.13.3)
You can't disable it if you updated to 10.13.3, it's embedded, unless your computer shipped with an earlier version of the OS and you can internet restore back to that OS or you have a full installer of 10.13.1,or 13.2 and can roll back to that.
Personally I understand you concerns (i'm running a CPU rendering farm) but this is a volunteer forum. You are not speaking with Apple here and Apple does not respond to posts made here. If you have concern you would like Apple to know about go to www.apple.com/feedback
You can't disable it if you updated to 10.13.3, it's embedded, unless your computer shipped with an earlier version of the OS and you can internet restore back to that OS or you have a full installer of 10.13.1,or 13.2 and can roll back to that.
Personally I understand you concerns (i'm running a CPU rendering farm) but this is a volunteer forum. You are not speaking with Apple here and Apple does not respond to posts made here. If you have concern you would like Apple to know about go to www.apple.com/feedback
I know this is volunteer forum and I know I sounded a bit rude. I also know that Apple does read these forums to some extent. This is the easier way other than taking legal action or something like that.
hene193 wrote:
I know this is volunteer forum and I know I sounded a bit rude. I also know that Apple does read these forums to some extent.
You are falling into the trap of thinking that "Apple" is a person. It is actually the world's largest company, with hundreds of thousands of employees. And the few employees (very few, BTW), who manage the forum do not have responding to posts such as yours in their job description, or even reading posts. About the only time a host sees a post is if a user at level 2 or higher reports it for a potential violation of the terms of use.
are you sure that goes for both ?
from what I recall then one of them is fixed on operating system level
and the other on EFI level at least that was the case with windows boxes (bios firmware fix)
if it's the same with macs then we may be stuck with one of the fixes
FWIW, I ran Geekbench before and after the OS updates
and found no noticeable differences in performance on
on all 4 Macs. The difference was not more than the
variance one sees between different test runs.
Whether Geekbench would be the right tool to determine
this remains to be seen.
Also, FWIW, I have noticed no difference in my normal usage which includes
a good deal of photo editing with 3 or 4 apps open.
Actually if you have a Time Machine or other backup you can just restore your machine to the time before the patches were applied.
hene193 wrote:
I also know that Apple does read these forums to some extent.
Only to the extent that the make sure people adhere to the terms of use. They don't reply to question like that.
I think you meant to reply to me. And, you may be correct.
Also, FWIW, I have noticed no difference in my normal usage
Same here. If there's any difference, it's so minute I don't even notice it.
Disable Spectre and Meltdown patch
