[Coco] A WARNING about Windows 10 Updates...

[James Jones]

This isn't about updates, at least not recent ones... but it turns out that
somewhere between Windows 7 and Windows 10, there was a change that forces
all exiting threads to acquire a lock that only one thread can have at a
time, making it a bottleneck for Windows performance. More info here:
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2017/07/09/24-core-cpu-and-i-cant-move-my-mouse/

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 4:10 PM, Steven Hirsch <snhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Jul 2017, Joe Schutts via Coco wrote:
>
> I've been a faithful Windows user since Windows 3.0 and before that DOS
>> 3.0. I just discovered a FLAW or BUG in their UPDATE Process and I wanted
>> to warn EVERY Windows 10 User out there about it before it ruins their day.
>> If you're like me I tweak EVERY setting for optimum setting (making
>> everything run faster), the only thing I DO NOT tweak is the Clock Speeds
>> of my CPU, I just buy the fastest CPU out there available. Recently I had
>> an update preformed and I noticed that my Ethernet Adapter seemed to be
>> running much slower than normal. I then went into the Device Manager and
>> checked out the settings. I found out the the JUMBO FRAMES on all my
>> Ethernet Adapters had all been changed from 9KB MTU to a new setting of
>> DISABLED (and therefore slowing down all my Ethernet Adapters). I have yet
>> to check out my other settings and am in the process of doing so now. My
>> advice is for everyone to check out their settings to see IF anything has
>> been changed in any negative way. Why MicroSoft did this (or even IF they
>> are aware of this, I do not know. But it is something to be aware of and
>> check out for yourselves.
>>
>
> Is it possible that at some point you were connected to a router or other
> device that didn't support 9k frames?
>
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