3 OS X machines gave me more trouble than 100s of linux boxes. They kept locking up, hard, whenever load got above "looked at severely." We had remotely contr

3 OS X machines gave me more trouble than 100s of linux boxes. They kept locking up, hard, whenever load got above "looked at severely." We had remotely controllable PDUs, so we could power cycle over ssh, but it was still a pita. No matter how much you love OS X on the desktop, I would stay the hell away from it in the server room. Apple just doesn't care enough to fix the problems, and/or there aren't enough people using it that way to get all the kinks out. I'm also pretty sure mac mini's don't have ECC memory. And ECC is not optional on a server: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/sigmetrics09.pdf