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.
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.