[Asterisk-Dev] clearing 'stuck' channels

[Jayson Vantuyl]

On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 01:59:47PM -0700, John Todd wrote:
> Did you find any solutions to this?  I've recently discovered the 
> same problem with my server here.  I had 499 "sip show channels" 
> entries, and then Asterisk refused to start up any new sessions due 
> to "Too many files open".   In fact, 'reload' worked but didn't work, 
> due to the inability of the system to open any of the config files. 
> I had to shut Asterisk down to get things working again.  My CVS 
> version was four days old.
You may be able to temporarily avoid this problem (i.e. thus allowing
you to plan an Asterisk restart every midnight) by cranking up your
max-files in the kernel.  Echo a larger value into
/proc/sys/fs/file-max.

Jayson