What is meant by process aging?
Process aging is the mechanism of the kernel scheduler of slowly reducing the execution priority of the process (more specifically the threads in a process) when that process or thread stays compute bound (or CPU pinned) for more than a short period of time.
This mechanism allows CPU intensive processes to run at a lower priority than IO intensive (or especially interactive) processes. It is a compromise between performance and responsiveness.
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