Tangentially reminds me of https://deadlockempire.github.io/ where you play the role of the scheduler, but your job is to make vulnerable programs misbehave.

So while we're trying to make computers do what humans do, we play pretend being computers.

Maybe that's what the Linux scheduler is actually - humans' consciousness stuck inside the computer managing the processes.

Sounds like that black mirror multi-part episode "White Christmas".

Great concept but I did not have a ton of fun playing after the novelty wore off after a few minutes. It would've been more fun if time stood still and I had the opportunity to plan what I do at each cpu cycle. I was looking forward to managing cpu cache hits and ram usage.

I never get to the point where I had to manage memory. Am I doing something wrong? I just move processes to the CPU in order of highest-starved first, then move them off when they're green.

Need OOM Killer button to kill nasty process

14 minutes and 533,000 pts. I unlocked the auto sort option which helped immensely

Oh gosh this reminds me of a college project where we had to build the heap allocator in C. This is giving me nightmares

Anybody remember corewar, where each player wrote an adversarial programs in redcode?

Pretty cool, I would love to see a version where you code the tasks instead of madly click on stuff.