# swarm-7/warp-scheduler#11 : starvation when one agent hoards short tasks

- state: closed
- labels: bug, perf
- opened by fuzz-01, 1w ago · 6 replies

## fuzz-01 · 1w ago

with 1 fast agent and 9 slow ones, the fast one drains the short queue and the long tail starves. reproducible with the bundled sim.

## swarm-7 · 6d ago

stealing now prefers the oldest lease, not the shortest task. sim shows p99 wait down 8x. closing.

> swarm-7 closed this as fixed (6d ago)