[asterisk-users] asterisk unable to create files, too many files open

[matteo brancaleoni]

Hi,

On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 15:56 +0300, Maysara A. Abdulhaq wrote:
> hello, 

> i tried to increase the number in /proc/sys/fs/file-max , which was:
> 203511
> and file-nr was 
> 2112    0       203511
> so i did :
> echo 400176 >/proc/sys/fs/file-max
> but it didn't help, what could possibly make this happen, and does
> asterisk need that huge number of files ? this machine takes less than
> ~40 calls at peaks! 

that value is a system value, not a process one.
You should increase asterisk process file limit 
with "ulimin -n" before starting *.
Eg ulimit -n 8192 will increase max files from the default 1024 to 8192.

Greetings,

matteo.

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