On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 17:05 -0400, Matt Roth wrote: [snip] > I make all ulimit changes in the init script > AND limits.conf. That way they're applied in both of the following > scenarios: And silly me was asking for one or the other <grin> > 1) Asterisk is started automatically at boot. > 2) Asterisk is started manually from a login prompt after a crash or > maintenance downtime. > > If you're planning on having a large number of concurrent calls, you > should increase the maximum number of file descriptors so that you don't > run into the same problem I did. This can be done by adding the > following lines to limits.conf: > > <user> soft nofile 65536 > <user> hard nofile 65536 > > And adding the following line to Asterisk's init script, prior to > starting Asterisk itself: > > ulimit -n 65536 Excellent, I will stick both sets of configs in the appropriate files. > If security isn't a major issue, I'd recommend running Asterisk as > root. There is a substantial amount of work involved in setting all of > the permissions to run it properly as another user. Yup, it took me a while to get everything right in the rpm spec file but it seems to work ok now so the hard part is done. > Here are a couple of scripts that you can use for starting Asterisk at > boot and restarting it automatically if it crashes: > > <http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/branches/1.2/contrib/init.d/rc.redhat.asterisk?rev=15615&view=markup> > <http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/branches/1.2/contrib/scripts/safe_asterisk?rev=21638&view=markup> Those are the same ones I use too. They work quite well. > I'd be happy to continue helping you with your system, but we're getting > a little off topic. Agree. > I'm also an active member of the Asterisk users > list <http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users>, so I'll > keep an eye out for your posts over there. Feel free to contact me off > list as well. I am subscribed to that list too. The sheer number of posts is a bit overwhelming these days although I enjoyed reading the threads about your 512 simultaneous call system and the ramdisk/tmpfs discussion. If you are still looking to test the various ztdummy incarnations (plain ztdummy, ztdummy-pll and ztdummy-rtc), this weekend I'll have updated (s)rpms at http://www.laimbock.com/asterisk/ that will have all three. Thank you for your elaborate answer. Regards, Patrick -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
