If you’re thinking about using OS X for a production environment server, you should really read this article originally posted on slashdot . It gives a lot of technical information and OS X fairs really well under a lot of circumstances as a workstation and especially in Apple apps like Final Cut, but I found this graphic on page 6 a little disturbing.
Apparently there’s some memory latency issues and something to do with the time it takes to start a process. I guess Apple’s response was that some proprietary database had found a way around the problem. Apache is and equal dog on OS X.
For me the biggest benefit from darwin’s unix roots are more that I can run the same software as a linux server on my mac as I’m developing it. I guess I’m not that discouraged cause I hadn’t really planned to use OS X in a production server environment. I guess I’ll be sure not to make any. Wonder if this had anything to do with the announcement about switching to Intel chips ?