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LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 16, 2013
A look at the PyPy 2.0 release
PostgreSQL 9.3 beta: Federated databases and more
LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 9, 2013
(Nearly) full tickless operation in 3.10
The kernel does not change sleep() behaviour. It's the sysadmins choice to set slack to something large. The kernel provides the mechanism, but not the policy.
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