[asterisk-users] Too many open files, asterisk crash

[Rilawich Ango]

I have already issue "ulimit -n 65535" in safe_asterisk as I run
asterisk by root.  I get the result of ulimit -a as following.

core file size          (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size           (kbytes, -d) unlimited
file size               (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals                 (-i) 1024
max locked memory       (kbytes, -l) 32
max memory size         (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files                      (-n) 1024
pipe size            (512 bytes, -p) 8
POSIX message queues     (bytes, -q) 819200
stack size              (kbytes, -s) 10240
cpu time               (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes              (-u) 16382
virtual memory          (kbytes, -v) unlimited
file locks                      (-x) unlimited


On 4/26/07, Justin Hamade <justhamade at gmail.com> wrote:
> What does ulimit -a say?
>
> Did you update limits.conf.  This is a documented issue:
> http://voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=file%20descriptors
>
> Justin
>
>
> On 4/25/07, Rilawich Ango <maillisting at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >   Recently, I got the following error from the system and it caused
> > the asterisk down.
> > Apr 25 13:48:22 WARNING[27460] rtp.c: Unable to allocate socket: Too
> > many open files
> > Apr 25 13:48:22 WARNING[27460] acl.c: Cannot create socket
> >
> > The output of ulimit is "unlimited".
> >
> > I have searched about the error but there is no solution to avoid it.
> > Then I issue lsof in the system and I got many asterisk with pipe
> > output like below.
> > asterisk    325    root 4469r     FIFO                0,7
>        4474531 p
> > ipe
> > asterisk    325    root 4470r     FIFO                0,7
>        4473427 p
> > ipe
> > Such message of lsof will keep growing.  I think it is the reason to
> > reach the maximum socket opened.  According to the lsof above, I have
> > no idea what hold the socket and keep it growing.  Anyone can give me
> > some hints?
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