What this means for the forum:
- If the server hasn't been rebooted yet, it may be rebooted soon. This will mean perhaps 5 minutes of downtime, give or take.
- After rebooting, we may see a performance hit. This might be anywhere from 2% to 30%, according to various reports about what has happened to other systems.
- I think we'll still be OK on performance, but if we're not, please let me know and we can look into (another) server upgrade if we need one.
Update: Geeky details here. New York Times here.