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 <[email protected]>
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On 30 June 2017 at 14:15, Stefan Viljoen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all
>
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>
> I’m trying to limit the maximum concurrent calls on my Asterisk to try and
> mitigate another problem I posted about earlier.
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> 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.
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> 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
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> maxcalls = 60
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> 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?
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> Thanks
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> Stefan
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