Re: [Sipp-users] Can't create raw socket (need to run as root?).

[Rob D. <rk...@rk...>]

Ah - having thought about it a bit more I think I know what the bug is
here. Can you try running with the "-skip_rlimit" option? If that
works I think I know what to fix.

Best,
Rob

On 30 January 2014 11:41, Kayode Olajide <kay...@gl...> wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
> I now see the error
>
> Can't create raw IPv4 socket (need to run as root?): Too many open files.
>
> Just to confirm my ulimit -n value is 1048576
>
> Do I need to increase that?
>
> Regards,
>
> Kayode Olajide
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rob Day" <rk...@rk...>
> To: "Kayode Olajide" <kay...@gl...>
> Cc: "sipp-users" <sip...@li...>
> Sent: Tuesday, 28 January, 2014 10:20:53 PM
> Subject: Re: [Sipp-users] Can't create raw socket (need to run as root?).
>
> That's odd. I've added better logging to cover that error in the
> latest code at https://github.com/SIPp/sipp - could you try it?
>
> On 28 January 2014 15:13, Kayode Olajide <kay...@gl...> wrote:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> The output if 'ulimit -n' is
>>
>> 1048576
>>
>> I already set this in the limits.conf file for root user. I am also running sipp directly as root (compiled from the source v3.3 in Ubuntu 12.04)
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Kayode Olajide
>>
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>> 40-42 Cannon Street,
>> London,
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Rob Day" <rk...@rk...>
>> To: "Kayode Olajide" <kay...@gl...>
>> Cc: "sipp-users" <sip...@li...>
>> Sent: Tuesday, 28 January, 2014 3:10:58 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Sipp-users] Can't create raw socket (need to run as root?).
>>
>> On 28 January 2014 14:36, Kayode Olajide <kay...@gl...> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I am seeing the above error when I run sipp with a xml file that plays a message. Sipp crashes after bout 1000 calls have been created.
>>>
>>> I am running it with the command sipp -sf uas_custom_loop.xml using the latest 3.3
>>
>> Hi Kayode,
>>
>> Can you run 'ulimit -n'? This will show you the maximum number of open
>> filehandles each process is allowed to have. Each call's socket for
>> sending media counts as one of those filehandles (whereas the SIP
>> traffic for all calls is sent over the same socket by default, so that
>> doesn't hit that limit). I suspect it defaults to 1024, which is why
>> you can't open another socket once you have ~1000 calls going.
>>
>> If it looks like that is the problem,
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34588/how-do-i-change-the-number-of-open-files-limit-in-linux
>> will tell you how to raise this limit.
>>
>> Best,
>> Rob