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by dekhn 1703 days ago
from what I can tell he was looking hard for problems.

He also noticed that if you ran 9 "yes" commands on a 8 core machine, the CPU wasn't allocated in 8/9ths units (one process always got a lot less CPU). he was used to much more predictible CPU scheduler on multiprocessor systems (spoilt by TruCluster). Linux later adopted a better scheduler (fair share) so imho he was right on that one, even if "yes" is a terribly performance metric.
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fragmede 1703 days ago
It seems the lesson here is that changing things out from under someone isn't a good look. What would have been the cost in not changing users' shells for them?
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tedunangst 1703 days ago
Everybody else has a worse shell.
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