TDMA schedules the orchestrators (lightweight checks), not the workers (heavy jobs). Orchestrators: Active 1/n of time (~10ms to check state) Workers: Run cont

TDMA schedules the orchestrators (lightweight checks), not the workers (heavy jobs). Orchestrators: Active 1/n of time (~10ms to check state) Workers: Run continuously for hours once started T=0s: Orchestrator-0 checks → starts job (runs 2 hours) T=2s: Orchestrator-1 checks → job still running T=10s: Orchestrator-0 checks again → job still running Think: traffic lights (TDMA) vs cars (drive continuously). Work throughput is unchanged. TDMA only coordinates who checks when.