The Linux kernel has been accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores for the past 15 years and nobody noticed

[Kent Sharkey]

The HFT guy[^]:

I’ve been diving into the Linux kernel scheduler recently.

Eight cores ought to be enough for everyone?

[Andre Oosthuizen]

I am planning on an upgrade, 8 cores should suffice for my notepad script right?

[Lost User]

Since most software is targeting a single core, yes, 8 would be overkill?

Bastard Programmer from Hell :suss: "If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.

[obermd]

Love the comment about Windows:

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For the anecdote, historically on windows the period was around 16 milliseconds, it had a funny side effect where an application doing a sleep(1ms) would resume around 16 milliseconds later.

The Sleep(timeout) call in Windows only guarantees that the thread will sleep for that long. It doesn't guarantee that the thread will be awaken in timeout milliseconds.