diff --git a/test/external/process_replay/process_replay.py b/test/external/process_replay/process_replay.py
index 5cb2b0cfc6..9917eaedf6 100755
--- a/test/external/process_replay/process_replay.py
+++ b/test/external/process_replay/process_replay.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ os.environ["RUN_PROCESS_REPLAY"] = "0"
 os.environ["CAPTURE_PROCESS_REPLAY"] = "0"
 early_stop = multiprocessing.Event()
 logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO, format="%(message)s")
-MAX_LINES = 1_000
+MAX_LINES = 500
 def trunc_log(x):
   if len(lines:=repr(x).splitlines()) > MAX_LINES: lines = lines[:MAX_LINES]+[f"WARN: truncated string with {len(lines)} lines"]
   logging.info("\n".join(lines))
diff --git a/tinygrad/engine/schedule.py b/tinygrad/engine/schedule.py
index 83c6e98059..3c9fc69b4e 100644
--- a/tinygrad/engine/schedule.py
+++ b/tinygrad/engine/schedule.py
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ class Kernel:
   def __repr__(self): return f"<Kernel {len(list(self.ast.toposort))} {self.ast.op} {self.metadata}>"
 
 @dataclass(frozen=True)
-class ScheduleItemContext:
+class KernelContext:
   var_vals: dict[Variable, int]
   bufs: list[UOp] = field(default_factory=list)
 
@@ -342,14 +342,14 @@ view_right = merge_views+PatternMatcher([
   (UPat(Ops.REDUCE_AXIS, src=(UPat(Ops.REDUCE_AXIS, name="first_reduce"),), name="root"), merge_double_reduce),
 ])
 
-def _append_st_vars(ctx:ScheduleItemContext, x:UOp) -> UOp|None:
+def _append_st_vars(ctx:KernelContext, x:UOp) -> UOp|None:
   st = unwrap(x.st).simplify()
   if any(x.op is Ops.BIND for x in st.vars()):
     st, var_vals = st.unbind()
     ctx.var_vals.update(var_vals)
   return st.to_uop() if st != x.st else None
 
-def _append_buf(ctx:ScheduleItemContext, x:UOp) -> UOp:
+def _append_buf(ctx:KernelContext, x:UOp) -> UOp:
   ctx.bufs.append(x)
   return UOp(Ops.DEFINE_GLOBAL, x.dtype.ptr(size=x.size), (), len(ctx.bufs)-1)
 
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ def schedule_uop(pre:UOp, ctx:ScheduleContext, var_vals:dict[UOp, int]) -> UOp:
   # unbind_vars + push views to edges
   sink = graph_rewrite(graph_rewrite(pre, unbind_vars+view_left, ctx=var_vals), view_right)
   # remove extra uops from SINK + substitue BUFFER with DEFINE_GLOBAL
-  ast = graph_rewrite(sink, to_si, si_ctx:=ScheduleItemContext(var_vals))
+  ast = graph_rewrite(sink, to_si, si_ctx:=KernelContext(var_vals))
   # deal with ASSIGN
   if len(ctx.assigns) != 0:
     assign_preloads = ctx.preloads[si_ctx.bufs[0].buffer]
@@ -430,10 +430,6 @@ def create_schedule_with_vars(big_sink:UOp) -> tuple[list[ScheduleItem], dict[Va
       ops_metadata[b] = k.metadata
   realize_map = group_realizes(sink, ctx:=ScheduleContext(ops_metadata))
 
-  # TODO: this should be the break between the "grouper" and the "linearizer"
-  # here, there should just be one sink UOp with BUFFER/KERNEL/COPY/ASSIGN (assign is the parent if you want the buffer post assign)
-  # call into `def linearize_schedule(sched_sink:UOp) -> list[ScheduleItem]`
-
   # create kernels + map buffers to realized tensors
   sinks: list[UOp] = []
   var_vals: dict[Variable, int] = {}
@@ -449,6 +445,10 @@ def create_schedule_with_vars(big_sink:UOp) -> tuple[list[ScheduleItem], dict[Va
   if getenv("VIZ"): graph_rewrite(sched_sink, PatternMatcher([]))
   type_verify(list(sched_sink.toposort), kernel_spec)
 
+  # TODO: this should be the break between the "grouper" and the "linearizer"
+  # here, there should just be one sink UOp with BUFFER/KERNEL/COPY/ASSIGN (assign is the parent if you want the buffer post assign)
+  # call into `def linearize_schedule(sched_sink:UOp) -> list[ScheduleItem]`
+
   # convert kernels to ScheduleItem
   prescheduled = [kernel_to_si(k) for k in sched_sink.src]
   # add ScheduleItem children