{
  "id": 3753563,
  "title": "[$] Using steal time to moderate CPU demands",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/27/using-steal-time-to-moderate-cpu-demands",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-27T14:11:52.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "LWN",
    "slug": "lwn",
    "url": "https://lwn.net/Articles/1090381/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Virtualization can increase CPU utilization by allowing a large number of virtual CPUs to share a smaller number of physical CPUs. The amount of CPU time that is actually available does not change, though, so heavy activity on too many virtual CPUs can lead to contention and significant performance loss. The steal governor patch series from Shrikanth Hegde is an attempt to address that problem…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}