[Asterisk-Users] Sip too many open files?

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Monday 23 June 2003 09:32 am, Brancaleoni Matteo wrote:
> Today my pbx stopped responding to my sip phones..
> looking into the log, here what I got:
>
> Jun 23 15:50:05 WARNING[7176]: File rtp.c, Line 586 (ast_rtp_new):
> Unable to allocate socket: Too many open files

The open file limit is per user, so you should still be able to login
as any user the asterisk process is not running as.  Once you're
at that point, run 'lsof' to see what files are open.  It's possible
that they're all sockets which aren't getting shutdown(2) properly.

-Tilghman