Linux 6.12, expected on November 18 or 25, brings three major changes to the code that controls when and how long processes use the processor. The most hotly anticipated is the Extensible Scheduler ...

Bugs in the Linux scheduler can cause performance degradation in heavily multithreaded loads, but a do-it-yourself fix is available The Linux kernel scheduler has deficiencies that prevent a multicore ...

Many market sectors, such as financial trading, defense, industry automation and gaming, long have had a need for low latencies and deterministic response time. Traditionally, custom-built hardware ...

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How to change the Linux I/O scheduler to fit your needs Your email has been sent In order to eek out as much performance from Linux servers as possible, learn how to change your I/O scheduler to meet ...