[asterisk-dev] Too many open files

[Steve Murphy]

I've been doing a little research on this problem, and I see some scattered
reports of similar problems over the past 3-4 years.

I have asterisk running on a cloud machine, so far fairly low volume, and
every couple weeks, it gets
clogged up with open files until it can't open new files any more. It's not
dead, and the CLI is working fine.
It's just reached the limit.

I'm running 1.6.2 on a fairly late-model kernel (2.6.24).

An 'lsof -p <pid>' on asterisk at that point yields around 700 lines of
entries that look like this:

asterisk 25361 root   27u  IPv4            1701345               UDP *:16932

asterisk 25361 root   28u  IPv4            1701346               UDP *:16933

asterisk 25361 root   29u  IPv4            1701926               UDP *:18054

asterisk 25361 root   30u  IPv4            1701927               UDP *:18055

asterisk 25361 root   31u  IPv4            1701965               UDP *:13798

asterisk 25361 root   32u  IPv4            1701966               UDP *:13799


The list must grow slowly with time, as when I checked today, the number of
open files
was at around 700 or so, and so I had another 300 or so descriptors to go. I
restarted
the server to prevent the total clog up, which is very inconvenient for
users.

Now, I could be way, way off, but the UDP and port numbers between 10K and
20K
kind of make it look like RTP connections are not getting properly closed.
Could this
be the reason?

Anyone else seeing this? I'm only having problems on one machine (so far).

murf


-- 
Steve Murphy
ParseTree Corp
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