Re: Apache not logging hostnames

[David Robinson <dr...@ast.cam.ac.uk>]

In article <qz...@chacal.noc.demon.net> jrg@demon.net wrote:
>In article <4f...@falcon.ns.net> root@web1.valleynet.net (Chris Ochs ) writes:
>> We are running about 120 virtual hosts, and all of them have their own
>> access and error logs.  We are not running into any file descriptor limits
>> or other resource limits that I am aware of, since I have dealt with that
>> problem before
>
>I wonder if you've reached limits not with your log files but with
>your operating system's resolver code?
>
>Most resolver library routines use select at some point, and are
>typically compiled with FD_SETSIZE of 256.
>
>You can work around this by adding some code to call sethostent(1)
>and initialise the resolver code, during Apache's startup routines.

This explains an aweful lot of problems I've heard.

 David.