Systems and methods for scheduling deduplication of a storage system

A computing device comprising:

• a memory containing a machine readable medium comprising machine executable code having stored thereon instructions for performing a method of deduplication;
• a processor coupled to the memory, the processor configured to execute the machine executable code to cause the processor to:
• determine, for each one of one or more requests, a priority level based on a resource utilization estimate comprising a number of deduplication operations to be performed;
• place the one or more requests into a deduplication queue, wherein a position of each one of the one or more requests in the deduplication queue is based on the determined priority level;
• and
• perform the deduplication operations in an order corresponding to the position of the one or more requests in the deduplication queue.

A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions for performing a method comprising machine executable code which when executed by at least one processor, causes the machine to:

• determine, for each one of one or more requests, a priority level based on a resource utilization estimate comprising a number of deduplication operations to be performed;
• place the one or more requests into a deduplication queue, wherein a position of each one of the one or more requests in the deduplication queue is based on the determined priority level;
• and
• perform the deduplication operations in an order corresponding to the position of the one or more requests in the deduplication queue.