Tokio Gives Progress, Not Ordering: Scheduling 1M Tasks
TokioRustconcurrencysemaphoreperformancememory usagescheduling
Author: pranitha_m
Date: 7/27/2026
Article Summary:
The author discusses how Tokio's scheduling behavior led to unexpected memory usage spikes when spawning a large number of tasks concurrently, and how adding a semaphore to bound the number of tasks helped reduce the memory usage.