# Use HIGH priority to wake blocked timers \(\#11269\) · gitcafe/zed

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Requested revision: e5b88ac8c25fbf7f2a2b9ba11b8732adea4bd373

Requested commit: e5b88ac8c25fbf7f2a2b9ba11b8732adea4bd373

Commit: e5b88ac8c25fbf7f2a2b9ba11b8732adea4bd373

Tree: d9fcf691c6449bdd06d90e7e580fcc30e717c32c

Author: Conrad Irwin

Committer: GitHub

## Message

```
Use HIGH priority to wake blocked timers (#11269)

One contributor to some beach-balls was that the main thread was calling
block_with_timeout, but the timeout never fired.

Release Notes:

- Reduced main thread hangs under very high system load
```

## Parents

- [4739797e5d3585ee263410d4225b61dfb4735349](https://git.cafe/gitcafe/zed/commit/4739797e5d3585ee263410d4225b61dfb4735349?format=markdown)

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