IBM HTTP Server fails to startup and all that is observed in the error log are the following informational messages:
[Wed Oct 22 09:46:02 2008] [info] mod_unique_id: using ip addr
12.34.170.145
[Wed Oct 22 09:46:03 2008] [info] mod_unique_id: using ip addr
12.34.170.145
[Wed Oct 22 09:54:23 2008] [info] mod_unique_id: using ip addr
12.34.170.145
[Wed Oct 22 09:54:24 2008] [info] mod_unique_id: using ip addr
12.34.170.145
IBM HTTP Server fails to start.
The preceding messages are not intuitive of the problem. Instead, the Web server simply stops loading if the plug-in log size is 2GB and, as a result, the error log is simply recording the last module that was successfully loaded. Which in this case is mod_unique_id.
More information on the 2GB limit
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21322755