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

[Jason Fuermann]

I've had mixed results with changing ulimit and not restarting asterisk. 
Best bet is to stop and start asterisk so that it calls a new shell

Rilawich Ango wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> What I ready do is:
> add ulimit -n 65535 in safe_asterisk
> increase value to 203380 in /proc/sys/fs/file-max
> Both actions don't help much for the file descriptor growing.
>
> What I want to know is:
>
> Do I need to reboot if I insert the following in /etc/security?
> *               -       nofile          65535
>
> Can I identify or remove the file descriptors, which are unused, shown 
> in lsof?
>
> Can I reload some modules to reduce the unused file descriptor instead
> of restart?
>
>
> On 4/27/07, Matthew J. Roth <mroth at imminc.com> wrote:
>> Rilawich,
>>
>> Here are a couple of my old posts that document how to guarantee that
>> Asterisk starts with an increased number of file descriptors available:
>>
>> Too many open files
>> <http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/2006-April/147204.html> 
>>
>> Asterisk Open File Limit
>> <http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-dev/2006-October/024092.html> 
>>
>>
>> Good luck,
>>
>> Matthew Roth
>> InterMedia Marketing Solutions
>> Software Engineer and Systems Developer
>>
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