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We've been seeing a pattern over the last couple of weeks with our Asterisk servers (1.0.9). The number of ports in use (RTP) seems to grow by two every minute or so. Eventually the server will run out of allowable files open and crash. We are resetting the server once per day to prevent this from occurring.<BR>
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Running "lsof" shows the end of the list like this:<BR>
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asterisk 26733 astx 1794u IPv4 183341654 UDP 192.168.1.123:22790<BR>
asterisk 26733 astx 1795u IPv4 183341655 UDP *:22791<BR>
asterisk 26733 astx 1796u IPv4 183312190 UDP 192.168.1.123:24170<BR>
asterisk 26733 astx 1797u IPv4 183312191 UDP *:24171<BR>
asterisk 26733 astx 1798u IPv4 183335059 UDP 192.168.1.123:21132<BR>
asterisk 26733 astx 1799u IPv4 183335060 UDP *:21133<BR>
asterisk 26733 astx 1802u IPv4 183342252 UDP 192.168.1.123:20358<BR>
asterisk 26733 astx 1803u IPv4 183342253 UDP *:20359<BR>
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and the list grows and grows (slowly but steadily).<BR>
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We have only around 600 SIP clients on this particular server so something is clearly amiss.<BR>
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My questions are:<BR>
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1. Are there any known file handle leaks in rtp.c or sip.c?<BR>
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2. If the number of ports open eventually reaches the port boundaries I have configured in rtp.c (e.g. start at 20000, end at 25000), will Asterisk crash, or it will it start to recycle those ports?<BR>
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3. I have set ulimit -n to a higher number but this doesn't seem like a solution, only a temporary band-aid.<BR>
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Thank you,<BR>
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Bryan<BR>
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