[asterisk-users] Linux limits

[Wai Wu]

Where are MAXFILES or SYSMAXFILES? 

-----Original Message-----
From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
[mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com] On Behalf Of Benjamin
Jacob
Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 11:51 PM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] Linux limits

safe_asetrisk bundled with the package, does increase the file limits in
quite a neat way, with some other good setups.
Edit MAXFILES or SYSMAXFILES as required.
Also, I've read posts online, advising not to use safe_asterisk. Any
experiences on this one, anyone?

cheers
- Ben.

Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

>On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 04:22:29PM -0400, Alex Balashov wrote:
>  
>
>>On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Wai Wu wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Any one know how to increase the Linux limit? I am hiting a wall on 
>>>200 calls playing files at the same time. From Asterisk console, I am

>>>getting messages like
>>>
>>>Sip_request_call: Unable to build sip pvt data for "asterisk1/700"
>>>Too many open files
>>>
>>>Is this a limit of my Linux box? I only have 512MB of ram. Will 
>>>increase it to 2G help or I have to change some configuration in
Linux itself.
>>>      
>>>
>
>[ top posting fixed so I can comment as well ]
>
>  
>
>>You have to increase the amount of available file descriptors per
process:
>>
>>http://hausheer.osola.com/docs/11%C2%A0%C2%A0
>>    
>>
>
>These days, I beleve the typical place to fix that is actually in 
>/etc/sysctl.conf, in most distros:
>
>http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/condorg/linux_scalability.html
>
>That page notes it for RedHat derived distros, but I'm pretty sure SuSe

>puts it there as well.
>
>Cheers,
>-- jra
>  
>


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