[Asterisk-Users] Asterisk 1.0.1 Too many open files

[Bob Goddard]

On Thursday 09 December 2004 14:22, Eric wrote:
> Hi Sean,
>
> Thanks for your reply, but that wasn't exactly what I was getting at.
>
> I don't need to increase the system's imposed limit on the number of
> open files.  I'm more concerned to see if anyone has run across a
> memory or fd leak in asterisk that sucks them all up.
>
> There should be no reason that I hit my limit of open files on this
> machine.  Restarting asterisk immediately solved the problem, so
> I'm leaning towards a leak, however, I didn't have the opportunity,
> in the moment, to check and see how many files and what type were
> open.

If you suspect an fd leak then check out /proc/<pid>/fd.

> On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 16:48:19 +0000
>
> Sean Cook <scook at kinex.net> wrote:
> > Easiest thing (as long as filedescriptors are being closed properly) is
> > to increase the number of allowed open files:
> >
> >  /proc/sys/fs/file-max
> >        This  file  defines  a  system-wide  limit on the number of open
> >        files for all processes.  (See also setrlimit(2), which  can  be
> >        used  by  a process to set the per-process limit, RLIMIT_NOFILE,
> >        on the number of files it may open.)  If you get lots  of  error
> >        messages  about running out of file handles, try increasing this
> >        value:
> >
> >        echo 100000 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
> >
> >        The kernel constant NR_OPEN imposes an upper limit on the  value
> >        that may be placed in file-max.
> >
> >        If  you  increase  /proc/sys/fs/file-max,  be  sure  to increase
> >        /proc/sys/fs/inode-max  to  3-4   times   the   new   value   of
> >        /proc/sys/fs/file-max, or you will run out of inodes.
> >
> > On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 16:26 -0500, Eric wrote:
> > > My asterisk process produced the following errors this morning:
> > >
> > > Dec 8 10:44:07 WARNING[50315282]: rtp.c:829 ast_rtp_new_with_bindaddr:
> > > Unable to allocate socket: Too many open files Dec 8 10:44:07
> > > WARNING[50315282]: chan_sip.c:2352 sip_alloc: Unable to create RTP
> > > session: Too many open files Dec 8 10:44:07 WARNING[50315282]:
> > > chan_sip.c:8024 sip_request: Unable to build sip pvt data for
> > > 'xxxxxxxxxx at sip0' Dec 8 10:44:07 NOTICE[50315282]: app_dial.c:743
> > > dial_exec: Unable to create channel of type 'SIP'
> > >
> > > I don't think it's related to the unreachable peer thing from last
> > > year, this machine only has one peer and a TE405p acting as a pure PSTN
> > > gateway.
> > >
> > > I restarted the process to fix the problem, however, I was wondering if
> > > anyone saw this problem with 1.0.1, and if so, any chance it was fixed
> > > for 1.0.2 or 1.0.3?
> > >
> > > Thanks.

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