safe_asterisk: Don't automatically exceed MAXFILES value of 2^20.

On systems with lots of RAM (e.g. 24GB) /proc/sys/fs/file-max divided
by two can exceed the per-process file limit of 2^20. This patch
ensures the value is capped.

(Patch cleaned up by me.)

ASTERISK-24011 #close
Reported by: Michael Myles
Patches:
  safe_asterisk-ulimit.diff uploaded by Michael Myles (License #6626)
........

Merged revisions 424875 from http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/branches/1.8
........

Merged revisions 424878 from http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/branches/11
........

Merged revisions 424879 from http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/branches/12
........

Merged revisions 424880 from http://svn.asterisk.org/svn/asterisk/branches/13


git-svn-id: https://origsvn.digium.com/svn/asterisk/trunk@424881 65c4cc65-6c06-0410-ace0-fbb531ad65f3

contrib/scripts/safe_asterisk

@@ -67,12 +67,17 @@ if test `id -u` != 0; then
 	message "safe_asterisk was started by `id -n` (uid `id -u`)."
 else
 	if `uname -s | grep Linux >/dev/null 2>&1`; then
-		# maximum number of open files is set to the system maximum divided by two if
-		# MAXFILES is not set.
+		# maximum number of open files is set to the system maximum
+		# divided by two if MAXFILES is not set.
 		if test -z "$MAXFILES"; then
 			# just check if file-max is readable
 			if test -r /proc/sys/fs/file-max; then
-				MAXFILES=$(( `cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max` / 2 ))
+				MAXFILES=$((`cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max` / 2))
+				# don't exceed upper limit of 2^20 for open
+				# files on systems where file-max is > 2^21
+				if test $MAXFILES -gt 1048576; then
+					MAXFILES=1048576
+				fi
 			fi
 		fi
 		SYSCTL_MAXFILES="fs.file-max"