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   feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 05:43:34 JST feld
   MacOS has a concept of a scheduling priority that is *different* than nice
   
   How do you set it?
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 06:31:59 JST feld

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     @i no there's a scheduler specifically for IO and you can disable it with
     
     sudo sysctl debug.lowpri_throttle_enabled=0
     
     its source is here:
     
     https://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-7195.81.3/bsd/miscfs/specfs/spec_vnops.c?txt
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     :blank: (i@declin.eu)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 06:32:00 JST :blank:

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     @feld you mean this? https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Darwin/Conceptual/KernelProgramming/scheduler/scheduler.html
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     :blank: (i@declin.eu)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 06:36:51 JST :blank:

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     @feld oh so more like switching from bfq to none on /sys/block/*/queue/scheduler
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 06:37:10 JST feld

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     @i yeah it just turns it off completely which makes Time Machine backups go really fast