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by CoolGuySteve 2377 days ago
It would be nice though if media and games could get soft real time guarantees so as to avoid priority inversions on things like the Spotlight indexer.

I got dinged on a performance review once at Apple for negatively comparing the MacOS process and IO schedulers to Linux while I was working on Final Cut/QuickTime 10 years ago. Apparently "why can't we adapt their algorithm to our stuff, it's not a secret" is not constructive enough.