[asterisk-users] exceeds the maximum size of ast_fdset error on Asterisk-1.8.0

[Tilghman Lesher]

On Monday 31 January 2011 07:26:25 Benny Amorsen wrote:
> Sorry for resurrecting an old thread...
> 
> Tilghman Lesher writes:
> > Out of curiosity, what platform are you running on? On most platforms
> > that are able to run Asterisk, with the possible exception of Solaris,
> > increasing the maximum file descriptor for use with select(2) is
> > possible.
> 
> I am not entirely sure yet, but it looks like Asterisk 1.8.x fails to
> increase the maximum file descriptor when running on Linux, if configure
> is not run as root.
> 
> If configure is run as root, everything works as expected.

Correct; and Asterisk needs to be started as root, even if it will drop
privileges after startup.  Do this, and there should be no problems.

-- 
Tilghman