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by mplanchard 883 days ago
I'd love to see more focus on this in the Linux scheduler, at least allowing an optional mode for interactive use. It's frustrating to have my entire system occasionally grind to a halt because of compilation or a particularly beefy test suite.
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That's what (in)famous kernel dev Con Kolivas[1] was doing up to late noughties. I'm not sure if he's still active in maintaining out of tree schedulers though.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con_Kolivas#Linux