Comment by bombela

I am not so sure you know what you are talking about. Feel free to provide some reading material for my education.

Why would the scheduler tick frequency even matters for this discussion. Even on a single cpu/core/thread system. For what is worth, the default scheduler tick rate has been 2.5ms since 2005. Earlier this year somebody proposed switching back to 1ms.

https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/dev/dev-btrfs-design.... https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/pm/cpuidle.html https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_... https://sqlite.org/wal.html#ckpt https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-2025-Proposal-1000Hz