[asterisk-dev] Asterisk Open File Limit

[Matt Florell]

Thanks,

ulimit was the problem. The manpage for ulimit and almost everywhere I
searched for information on ulimit in Linux 2.6 says it's depricated
and not used anymore, also it does not show any options. I eventually
found a Linux 2.0 ulimit manpage from 1998 that showed what the
options for ulimit really are and I was able to raise ulimit to 4096
and now no more too many file open errors.

 I just did a "ulimit -n 4096" then "ulimit -a" to check the settings
and everything is happy now.

Now I'm pushing 600 concurrent channels on this server through meetme
with 200-300 calls per minute(Dial and Hangup) with only the
occasional "Avoided deadlock for '0x871ef90', 10 retries" message.

Thanks,

MATT---


On 10/17/06, Kevin P. Fleming <kpfleming at digium.com> wrote:
> ----- Matt Florell <astmattf at gmail.com> wrote:
> > What is the default open file limit in Asterisk and where is it
> > defined?
>
> Asterisk has no open file limit. There is no code in Asterisk to track how many files are open.
>
> > doing a /proc/sys/fs/file-nr shows me that I never seem to have many
> > more than 2200 files open so I don't think this is a Linux issue
> > specifically since that limit is set to over 300000.
>
> And what does 'ulimit -n' say for your Asterisk process?
>
> --
> Kevin P. Fleming
> Senior Software Engineer
> Digium, Inc.
>
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