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    SubjectRe: Overscheduling DOES happen with high web server load.

    On Fri, 7 May 1999, Rik van Riel wrote:

    > Schedule_timeout() can be replaced by a simple resorting of
    > the heap. Basically we only need to remove processes from
    > the heap if they do blocking I/O or wait for a signal
    > (otherwise they would clutter up the heap).

    schedule_timeout() is not really expected to have high performance. Its
    functionality was moved out of the main scheduler partly for this reason.
    Btw., the timer code (which is used by schedule_timeout() intrnally) has a
    sort of heap structure already.

    -- mingo


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