[asterisk-dev] Asterisk and file descriptors

[Steve Edwards]

On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, Terry Wilson wrote:

>> I tracked some time ago this issue, but seems that the amount of file
>> descriptors is ok. If I do "ls -l /proc/PID/fd | wc -l" I get normally
>> 400-500 fd's. Looking at safe_asterisk's code, when there is no ulimit
>> -n, it configures max open files to half of value in
>> /proc/sys/fs/file-max, which is 103152 in our case, so this doesn't
>> seems an issue.
>> Also seems that when this error is triggered, there's and audiohook
>> message complaing of write/read factory:
>
> I recommend running !ulimit -n from the asterisk CLI to see what the
> setting really is.  I seem to remember that setting it in the
> safe_asterisk script has no effect.

Isn't this going to show the maximum number of open file descriptors in 
the command line process instead of the daemon?

Thanks in advance,
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