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Can we save an old Arch install? We\'ll attempt a live rescue, then get into our tips for keeping your old Linux install running great.

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• The Linux Scheduler: a Decade of Wasted Cores — In our experiments, these performance bugs caused many-fold performance degradation for synchronization-heavy scientific applications, 13% higher latency for kernel make, and a 14-23% decrease in TPC-H throughput for a widely used commercial database.
• The Linux kernel scheduler has been accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores for the past 15 years and nobody noticed \\u2013 The HFT Guy
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