{"id":208024,"date":"2026-01-30T01:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T06:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/30\/this-amazing-linux-cpu-scheduler-uses-the-power-of-the-stars-to-decide-which-processes-to-focus-on\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T01:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T06:55:08","slug":"this-amazing-linux-cpu-scheduler-uses-the-power-of-the-stars-to-decide-which-processes-to-focus-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/30\/this-amazing-linux-cpu-scheduler-uses-the-power-of-the-stars-to-decide-which-processes-to-focus-on\/","title":{"rendered":"This amazing Linux CPU scheduler uses the power of the stars to decide which processes to focus on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/this-amazing-linux-cpu-scheduler-uses-the-power-of-the-stars-to-decide-which-processes-to-focus-on\/\">This amazing Linux CPU scheduler uses the power of the stars to decide which processes to focus on<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/this-amazing-linux-cpu-scheduler-uses-the-power-of-the-stars-to-decide-which-processes-to-focus-on\/\">https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/this-amazing-linux-cpu-scheduler-uses-the-power-of-the-stars-to-decide-which-processes-to-focus-on\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-01-30 01:16:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.xda-developers.com\">www.xda-developers.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"title icon i-list\">Summary<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n                                        scx_horoscope maps planets to PC tasks and boosts or nerfs processes based on star alignments.\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        Fire\/air\/earth\/water signs tweak CPU, network, disk, and memory \u2014 but they also nerf opposing elements.\n                        <\/li>\n<li>\n                                        It&#8217;s a tongue\u2011in\u2011cheek, &#8216;scientifically dubious&#8217; scheduler on GitHub \u2014 fun to try but not serious.\n                        <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever met anyone who just dabbles in astrology. You either think it&#8217;s entirely bunk or you&#8217;re reading the stars to decide the best time to make that big career-changing move. <\/p>\n<p>However, what if astrology had a tangible, measurable effect on your computer? What if you&#8217;re waiting for a positive manifestation of Mars to soup up your computer&#8217;s rendering power and finally get that video completed? Or what if your friends are waiting on you to download the newest co-op game, but you have to tell them that it&#8217;ll take longer than usual because Mercury is in retrograde? Well, that&#8217;s exactly what this Linux kernel tweak can do.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span data-field=\"label\" class=\"article-card-label\">Related<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"display-card-title \">\n<p>\t\t\tThis awesome Raspberry Pi project will show you all the asteroids that almost hit Earth today for that extra existential dread<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>          &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/this-amazing-linux-cpu-scheduler-uses-the-power-of-the-stars-to-decide-which-processes-to-focus-on\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This amazing Linux CPU scheduler uses the power of the stars to decide which processes&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.xdaimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Intel-Core-i5-12600K-6.jpg?w=1200&h=675&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-208024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208024"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208026,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208024\/revisions\/208026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}