Published December 31st, 2002 by Jim O'Halloran
Comparing OS Schedulers
IBM developerWorks compares the CPU schedulers in Windows and Linux. Interesting geeky type info, raw context switching is faster in Windows, but when the Linux scheduler seems to be “fairer” under heavy loads.
The latter seems to hold true in my experience. A heavily loaded Linux box is slugish to administer, but you can do it. On a heavily loaded Windows box the console or remote control tools almost stop working entirely.