[asterisk-users] asterisk.conf ignored?

[Marcelo Terres]

You should try to limit it in your sip trunks (is you are using SIP
trunks, of course)
Marcelo H. Terres <mhterres at gmail.com>
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On 30 June 2017 at 15:41, Marcelo Terres <mhterres at gmail.com> wrote:
> This limit is only valid for inbound calls:
>
> Sets a maximum number of simultaneous inbound channels. No limit is
> set by default.
> Marcelo H. Terres <mhterres at gmail.com>
> IM: mhterres at jabber.mundoopensource.com.br
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>
> On 30 June 2017 at 14:15, Stefan Viljoen <viljoens at verishare.co.za> wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>>
>>
>> I’m trying to limit the maximum concurrent calls on my Asterisk to try and
>> mitigate another problem I posted about earlier.
>>
>>
>>
>> I’ve edited
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>> /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf
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>> And uncommented this line, and put a value of 60 in there:
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>> maxcalls = 60
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>> in an effort to limit my Asterisk to 60 simultaneous calls.
>>
>>
>>
>> I did a
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>> core reload
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>> in the CLI after doing that.
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>> Any idea why my running instance totally ignores this setting? I still goes
>> right ahead and services unlimited numbers of simultaneous calls - we have
>> 90 extensions or so and it will happily service 90 simultaneous calls in
>> spite of asterisk.conf clearly stating
>>
>>
>>
>> maxcalls = 60
>>
>>
>>
>> The “maxload” specification is also ignored, load can go anywhere the
>> Asterisk instance keeps taking more calls despite load exceeding, for
>> example
>>
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>> maxload = 10
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>> in /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf
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>>
>> What am I doing wrong that the asterisk binary is apparently ignoring
>> settings in /etc/asterisk/asterisk.conf?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>>
>> Stefan
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