Re:"Server" vs "Desktop" OS (Score 2, Interesting)

For example, a desktop OS will have a scheduler optimised for latency while a server OS will have one optimised for throughput.

Linus Torvalds seems to disagree with that notion:

When it comes to schedulers, "performance" *is* pretty damn well-defined, and has effectively universal meaning.

The arguments that "servers" have a different profile than "desktop" is pure and utter garbage, and is perpetuated by people who don't know what they are talking about. The whole notion of "server" and "desktop" scheduling being different is nothing but crap.

I don't know who came up with it, or why people continue to feed the insane ideas. Why do people think that servers don't care about latency? Why do people believe that desktop doesn't have multiple processors or through-put intensive loads? Why are people continuing this *idiotic* scheduler discussion?