Re:Show HN: Replacing my OS process scheduler with an LLM
by DougN7 on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @12:01AM
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I resemble that comment!
But seriously, it does really bug me on principle that DropBox should use over half a GB simply because it uses Chromium, even when nothing is visible.
Re:Show HN: Replacing my OS process scheduler with an LLM
by SanjayMehta on Sunday January 04, 2026 @04:36AM
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Maestral is a cross platform implementation of the Dropbox client API which I use on low end Linux machines.
Re:Show HN: Replacing my OS process scheduler with an LLM
by DougN7 on Sunday January 04, 2026 @12:16PM
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Thanks for the tip - I’ll take a look
Re:Show HN: Replacing my OS process scheduler with an LLM
by Xmd5a on Sunday January 04, 2026 @07:44AM
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For me it's LSP servers taking 2 gigs of RAM. With Antigravity, Google managed to go beyond this, it is totally unusable for me (but other VScode clones work fine, apart from the 2 Go LSP servers).
Re:Show HN: Replacing my OS process scheduler with an LLM
by ImPrajyoth on Wednesday December 31, 2025 @02:08AM
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haha exactly. i realized i spent too much time staring at htop wondering what is this process?, so i decided to automate my own anxiety.
Scheduler Manager is definitely the more accurate term. Im just the middleman between the chaos and the kernel.
Re:Show HN: Replacing my OS process scheduler with an LLM
by QuantumNomad_ on Sunday January 04, 2026 @07:01AM
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Now we need processes to gain awareness of the process manager and integrate an LLM into each process to argue with the process manager why it should let them live.
Re:Show HN: Replacing my OS process scheduler with an LLM
by ImPrajyoth on Sunday January 04, 2026 @07:07AM
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Imagine Chrome.exe pleading its case: 'Please, I need 4GB of RAM, the user might revisit that tab from 3 hours ago!'
while BrainKernel replies: 'Objection overruled. You have 5 seconds to wrap up before SIGKILL.'
I might actually have to build a 'Process Defense Attorney' agent now. The logs would be hilarious.
Re:Show HN: Replacing my OS process scheduler with an LLM
by moffkalast on Sunday January 04, 2026 @06:03AM
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Assistant to the scheduler manager
I wouldn't call it replacing the scheduler though - more that you've made a scheduler manager.