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I wonder if Illumos / SmartOS and OpenIndiana continued with the principle of least surprise via their ancestry chain, or whether they also moved to a "system"
by otoburb 9y ago
I wonder if Illumos / SmartOS and OpenIndiana continued with the principle of least surprise via their ancestry chain, or whether they also moved to a "system" load view like Linux.
It's great that design decisions and thinking from decades past can be dug out and examined by complete strangers.
- X86BSD 9y agoIts called POLA in the FreeBSD world. Principle of least astonishment. So this exists outside solaris too. :)
- moosingin3space 9y agoI've always seen POLA as "principle of least authority" in an OS research context, just fyi.
- X86BSD 9y agoI think the phrase has probably been mutated many times by various groups.
- rodgerd 9y agoOf course, at this point, most people will be astonished when their Solaris (or Solaris-derived) or FreeBSD system shows CPU load instead of system load, given that most *ix exposure now happens via Linux.
- Lazare 9y agoAnecdotally, people whose first ix exposure is via Linux are still astonished that the load average doesn't mean CPU load.