Meta is using the Linux scheduler designed for Valve's Steam Deck on its servers

Post by tremon » Wed, Dec 24, 2025, 12:28 PM UTC

baobun wrote: post #351

SkiFire13 wrote: post #344

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Do you have some resource for people outside this field to understand what it's about?

It goes all the way back to tapes, was still important for CDs, and still thought relevant for HDDs. Basically you can get much better read performance if you can read everything sequentially and you want to avoid random access at all costs. So you can basically "hydrate" the loading patterns for each state, storing the bytes in order as they're loaded from the game. The only point it makes things slower is once, on…

Post by baobun » Wed, Dec 24, 2025, 1:01 PM UTC

tremon wrote: post #371

baobun wrote: post #351

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It goes all the way back to tapes, was still important for CDs, and still thought relevant for HDDs. Basically you can get much better read performance if you can read everything sequentially and you want to avoid random access at all costs. So you can basically "hydrate" the loading patterns for each state, storing the bytes in order as they're loaded from the game. The only point it makes things slower is once, on…

It's also a valid consideration in the context of streaming games -- making sure that all resources for the first scene/chapter are downloaded first allows the player to begin playing while the rest of the resources are still downloading.

Post by pjmlp » Wed, Dec 24, 2025, 2:52 PM UTC

asveikau wrote: post #38

MarleTangible wrote: post #26

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Over time they're going to touch things that people were waiting for Microsoft to do for years. I don't have an example in mind at the moment, but it's a lot better to make the changes yourself than wait for OS or console manufacturer to take action.

I was at Microsoft during the Windows 8 cycle. I remember hearing about a kernel feature I found interesting. Then I found linux had it for a few years at the time. I think the reality is that Linux is ahead on a lot of kernel stuff. More experimentation is happening.

Post by pjmlp » Wed, Dec 24, 2025, 2:58 PM UTC

6r17 wrote: post #134

MarleTangible wrote: post #26

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Over time they're going to touch things that people were waiting for Microsoft to do for years. I don't have an example in mind at the moment, but it's a lot better to make the changes yourself than wait for OS or console manufacturer to take action.

Tbh i'm starting to think that I do not see microsoft being able to keep it's position in the OS market ; with steam doing all the hard work and having a great market to play with ; the vast distributions to choose from, and most importantly how easy it has become to create an operating system from scratch - they not only lost all possible appeal, they seem stuck on really weird fetichism with their taskbar and just…

Post by pjmlp » Wed, Dec 24, 2025, 3:02 PM UTC

m4rtink wrote: post #243

thewebguyd wrote: post #232

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I think that's the most likely way it'll go. Windows will remain as the default "enterprise desktop." It'll effectively become just another piece of business software, like an ERP. Gamers, devs, enthusiasts will end up on Linux and/or SteamOS via Valve hardware, creatives and personal users that still use a computer instead of their phone or tablet will land in Apple land.

With the massive adoption of web apps in Enterprise I have seen I would expect Windows to become irelevant or even a liability in business use as well.