[SR-Users] Runaway TCP Log

[Daniel-Constantin Mierla]

On 3/18/13 6:42 PM, Simon Perreault wrote:
> Le 2013-03-18 18:12, Krishna Kurapati a écrit :
>> My Log filled to 20G overnight with these
>>
>> Mar 18 09:59:44 sipprod /usr/local/sbin/kamailio[26157]: ERROR: <core>
>> [tcp_main.c:4049]: WARNING: handle_new_connect: error while accepting
>> connection(24): Too many open files
>> Mar 18 09:59:44 sipprod /usr/local/sbin/kamailio[26157]: ERROR: <core>
>> [tcp_main.c:4049]: WARNING: handle_new_connect: error while accepting
>> connection(24): Too many open files
>> Mar 18 09:59:44 sipprod /usr/local/sbin/kamailio[26157]: ERROR: <core>
>> [tcp_main.c:4049]: WARNING: handle_new_connect: error while accepting
>> connection(24): Too many open files^C
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Is this an issue with Kamailio or something else?
>
> Yes it's an issue with Kamailio. Any daemon should throttle accept() 
> calls when encountering file descriptor exhaustion.
>
> That does not mean that the exhaustion situation you encountered was 
> normal in the first place, but at least Kamailio should react 
> correctly. Filling the logs or busy-looping are not acceptable.
Just to add (besides lowering debug level in kamailio config as said in 
previous email), latest versions of syslog apps have limits for syslog 
file size. That should be used as protection anyhow.

A contribution on enhancing the way kamailio logs in such situation is 
welcome, of course.

Cheers,
Daniel

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