I suppose this is why you mentioned it, and its interesting that Windows 7 doesnt suffer from the problem. What I do not know/understand is if we can determine the O/S is doing something alas Win10 that is mitigating the spectre/meltdown problem by increasing CPU usage? I really dont understand why that would be a fix for a problem, since instead of letting the system run fine… its making it work awfully, but I guess this is a out of the reach of everyday users.
Dont understand why @Ravow with newer hardware compared to my system… is also experiencing a similar problem with the EVE clients going at 100%, as the above thread link reports happening also on Windows 10, and its also interesting that perhaps thats also the reason why I was getting the same horrible performance in Windows 10 (Though they did mention something about the 1903 update, which I think is the latest big 32gb patch, which I did not do, so why did that happened to me before 1903 I dont know).
If its on the O/S level, what I still dont understand is when it was introduced as a patch in 16.04, as it was working fine and the ‘update’ I dont remember reading about it, and coincided with the pre64 update. So, it would seem that I could go back to 16.04 and pay attention to which update does that and tentatively not install it?
Was good to know that eventually, when Im able to fuel the budget for a Ryzen 5 2600… (or better)… that the problem is fixed.
This would also explain why some other systems dont suffer from the problem. Light at the end of the tunnel…
So, Im backing up everything and I will go after 16.04 and hopefully report good CPU % 