[asterisk-users] 786 000 files limit Centos 7 - Asterisk keep complaining

[Tony Mountifield]

In article <002b01d0d414$36af31b0$a40d9510$@verishare.co.za>,
Stefan Viljoen <viljoens at verishare.co.za> wrote:
> >> Anybody else ran into this?
> 
> >No, but I would ask myself why so many file descriptors are being used.
> >It sounds like you have a file descriptor leak (not being closed when
> >finished with).
> 
> Hi Tony
> 
> Thanks for replying.
> 
> I suspected something like that, though repeatedly running
> 
> lsof | wc -l
> 
> Always stays quite low - 100 000 open files, which is still 8 times less
> than the system maximum as confirmed by running ulimit -n

>From what you said below, the above is probably not relevant...

> 
> SOMETHING NEW
> 
> I have now ran
> 
> /usr/bin/prlimit --pid `pidof asterisk` 
> 
> and I have noticed that even though I have 800 000 files specified, the
> ACTUAL limit in place on Asterisk for numbers of files is only 1024?!

Yes, this is likely. Have a look in /usr/sbin/safe_asterisk, at the
commented-out settings for SYSMAXFILES and MAXFILES, and try setting those.

Cheers
Tony
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