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Subject: Re: Scheduler ( was: Just a second ) ...
To: torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds)
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 14:09:16 +0000 (GMT)
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> to CD-RW disks without having to know about things like "ide-scsi" etc,
> and do it sanely over different bus architectures etc.
> 
> The scheduler simply isn't that important.

The scheduler is eating 40-60% of the machine on real world 8 cpu workloads.
That isn't going to go away by sticking heads in sand.
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