Ioan, Thanks for the detailed report (and solution).
I'm going to start a new thread to the devel list for discussion, but your solution sounds reasonable to me. Lonnie On Feb 16, 2010, at 5:29 AM, Ioan Indreias wrote: > Hello, > > We have conducted some tests on systems using Astlinux 0.7.0 and we found > that the limit for open files is set to 1024 (probably the default kernel > value). > > pbx load_tests # ulimit -n > 1024 > > Because we had a machine which could process more than 130 calls > simultaneously we have reached to that limit: > > pbx load_tests # asterisk -rx "show channels" | grep "active calls" > 0 > pbx load_tests # ls -l /proc/$(cat /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.pid)/fd/ | > wc -l > 23 > > asterisk -rx "show channels" | grep "active calls" > 130 active calls > pbx load_tests # ls -l /proc/$(cat /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.pid)/fd/ | > wc -l > 1063 > > Each call is a SIP call between 2 extensions defined on the same Asterisk > server and the relation found between calls and open files is: > 8 new open files at each new call > > Each leg have one RX and one TX flow and each flow open 2 files (one pipe and > one stream) and this is how we explained the value found above > 2 legs x 2 flows x 2 files = 8 open files per call > > Thus we have modified the script which start asterisk (/etc/init.d/asterisk) > with the following configuration: > > ulimit -n 4096 > > and from that point our tests have not been affected by the errors reported > in the asterisk CLI. > > Do you think is OK if you could add this configuration into the trunk (or at > least 2048) - or maybe the proposed change is considered inappropriately? > > Best regards, > Ioan Indreias > > ------------------ > if [ -r /etc/asterisk/extensions.conf ]; then > # Work around uclibc bug > ulimit -s unlimited > # Patch for open files error > ulimit -n 4096 > asterisk -p -I > ------------------ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org.
