Tokio Gives Progress, Not Ordering: Scheduling 1M Tasks

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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.