They say I/O schedulers on Windows are weird.
I think there’s in play also background activity from Windows’ bloat.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 5 days ago
Warl0k3@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Yes/no.
The linux scheduler is a work of art - heuristics to dynamically determine resource access priority, checks for resource locking that are some of the most elegant pieces of code written by humanity, incredibly adaptable and clever pieces of code. It took me the better part of a year before I really understood the underlaying mechanics, and even now I could by no means reproduce it on my own. It’s truly an amazing bit of mathematics.
Windows solves the same problem by randomly elevating processes to maximum priority.
Depressingly, they’re equally effective.
Honytawk@feddit.nl 5 days ago
You’d think anyone techliterate would disable the bloat.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 5 days ago
Probably this. Especially on low end hardware that doesn’t really have a lot of background resources to give.
Just open task manager and see all the shit windows thinks is essential to run all the time. Scanning the drive for viruses, downloading updates for shit you’ve never even looked at…