On systems that have a compute bottleneck, yes. Questions that arise tho are: * is the system compute bound or io bound? - in the latter case the waste will be

On systems that have a compute bottleneck, yes. Questions that arise tho are: * is the system compute bound or io bound? - in the latter case the waste will be smaller. * How does this compare to other OSes? If it the most efficient available kernel for your workload, compared to other options, it is questionable to say it fails.