nginx.conf File too Large

[Alexandr Gomoliako]

On 7/6/11, Rami Essaid <rami.essaid at gmail.com> wrote:
> We are trying to use nginx as a reverse proxy for a large number of sites
> and putting up a lot of rules to direct and traffic for each host. Is there
> a number of hosts ({server}) that would be too many for a single nginx
> instance to support? At what point does the configuration file get too large
> and start bogging down the nginx server? Currently each host takes up about
> 150 lines, and we are looking to put in 25+ hosts onto each server. I wanted
> to know if this realistic?

It doesn't sound like an nginx problem. Nginx usually suggests what to
change if it hits the limit. Can you show us the exact error message?