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[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 13:46:00 -0700, Bob wrote:
>** Reply to message from Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> on Tue, 9 Oct
>2018 12:15:40 +0200
>> Have you installed any optional drivers or microcode? If not, you
>> should do that.  
>
>Not that I know of.
>
>> And as I always say, ensure that you are on the latest system
>> firmware for your machine.  
>
>As I understand it Ubuntu automatically updates the Intel firmware.
>Correct me if I am wrong.

Regarding firmware packages run

  apt list -qqa *microcode* linux-firmware

  dmesg | grep micro

A BIOS update could help, too, but can't be done by installing a
package.

Btw. the microcode also affects meltdown and spectre mitigation, run

  cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/vulnerabilities/*