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I don't get the point of things like this. If you remove every single blocking part in your code then you will always use up your scheduling quantum and become the lowest priority process (the mother of all blocking) anyway.


If database throughput is that important to you then you will put it on an idle machine that has no other services running, or assign a dedicated CPU core to it.




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