Re: Hard-limits for kern.maxproc
Re: Hard-limits for kern.maxproc
- Subject: Re: Hard-limits for kern.maxproc
- From: Amanda Walker <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 20:19:50 -0500
On Feb 5, 2009, at 3:48 PM, Rand Childs wrote:
One would hope that Apple's Mac OS X designers and developers will
eventually provide the same modern kernel resource allocation and
configuration features that are already provided in other Unix/Linux
operating systems if Apple hopes to be able to sell Mac OS X Server
into any kind of serious production environment.
Depends on what you mean by "serious". While Apple marketing
strategies are probably not terribly on topic for darwin-kernel, I'll
make a few observations:
- Mac OS X (and as a result Darwin) is aimed at machines with
individual users.
- Mac OS X Server has been primarily aimed at workgroups and small
enterprises as a multiple-function server, not at large enterprises as
a single-purpose server for large numbers olf users.
- Most large enterprises wouldn't even consider Apple hardware for
"serious production environments", for a wide variety of reasons
having nothing to do with kernel tunability.
- Apple has never pursued (and has on occasion outright spurned) the
"serious production environment) because it's a low-margin commodity
business where Apple's traditional advantages are simply not applicable.
Frankly, if "mail server for thousands of users who depend on instant
delivery and high availability" is your use case, a Mac OS X Server
box is just the wrong solution. This is not a failure of Apple OS
design, it's a failure to pick the right tool for the job.
--Amanda
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