Re: Hard-limits for kern.maxproc
Re: Hard-limits for kern.maxproc
- Subject: Re: Hard-limits for kern.maxproc
- From: Michael Miller <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 17:26:37 -0800
Apple.com does indeed say that mail services in Leopard Server are "The ideal solution for small businesses".
-Michael
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 17:19, Amanda Walker
<email@hidden> wrote:
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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