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Mikhail Teterin wrote:

> Why would the scheduler affect the "sys" component of the load (which
> shoots to the sky before the machine drops of the network)? I thought,
> it only matters for user-space programs (the order in which they run)...

It also schedules internal kernel threads (such as device driver
interrupt threads, etc.)