Further info on this mystery:
I tried 1.3b2 with exact same results.
We have grown a bit today so that now we have close to 1300
virtual hosts, and now the server will not even start up
(even with all shell limits unlimited), failing with the
message: "Ouch! malloc failed in malloc_block()"
I was under the impression that non-IP virtual hosts were
going to free ISPs from the severe limitations imposed by
IP-based virtual hosting (i.e. only 200 or so hosts per
physical server). Apparently there is a ways to go before
we will see 10k hosts per server... It's a shame too, since
Hypermart is attempting to provide a genuinely nice service
to businesses wishing to have a nice home on the net for
free.
I reported this bug to the Apache group, but they seem to have
dismissed it already as unimportant.
> Last night we gave all of our users their own subdomains
> (mycompany.hypermart.net), which entailed adding about 1000
> virtual hosts to our 1.2.4 server's httpd.conf file. We have
> about 1200 in there altogether now. The problem is that I
> have to unlimit all the limits in csh just to get the server
> to run, and then each of the processes reports its size as
> 50MEGS under ps. Our server has a lot of mem, but even so it
> I am seeing "cannot fork/no mem" type messages in the error
> log if it gets anywhere near busy. Anyone know what the problem
> is? Is 1.2.4 just not able to handle that many virtual hosts?
> These all are non-IP virtual hosts BTW.
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> -William Gibson
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