mosquitto: increase connection limits

Asked by mukilan

I am trying to increase my mosquitto connection limits. when my mosquitto broker reaches above 1010 clients connection it's cannot publish a message and got connection failed error. $SYS/broker/clients/active this command used to I checked it. I attach my config files given below.

My server specification:

Server: ubuntu 18.04 LTS Mosquitto version:1.6.12 Ram:4GB

My configurations:

Our system wide open connections is configured on /etc/sysctl.conf:

fs.file-max =200000

In /etc/security/limits.conf:

* hard nofile 200000
* soft nofile 200000

root hard nofile 200000
 root soft nofile 200000

Mosquitto is installed under the user 'Ubuntu'.

We also added below line of code on /etc/pam.d/common-session

session required pam_limits.so

Running ulimit -a is giving the below result:

core file size (blocks, -c) 0
data seg size (kbytes, -d) unlimited
scheduling priority (-e) 0
file size (blocks, -f) unlimited
pending signals (-i) 15623
max locked memory (kbytes, -l) 16384
max memory size (kbytes, -m) unlimited
open files (-n) 200000
pipe size (512 bytes, -p) 8
POSIX message queues (bytes, -q) 819200
real-time priority (-r) 0
stack size (kbytes, -s) 8192
cpu time (seconds, -t) unlimited
max user processes (-u) 200000
virtual memory (kbytes, -v) unlimited
file locks (-x) unlimited

Below is the configuration in /etc/mosquitto/mosquitto.conf:

persistence true
persistence_location /var/lib/mosquitto/

log_dest file /var/log/mosquitto/mosquitto.log

include_dir /etc/mosquitto/conf.d

max_connections -1

log_type error
log_type warning
log_type notice

connection_messages true```

How to increase my mosquitto broker connection limits?
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Bernard Stafford (bernard010) said :
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On the manpages: Their is: $SYS/broker/clients/maximum
           The maximum number of clients that have been connected to the broker at the same time.
Then their is Total: $SYS/broker/clients/total
           The total number of active and inactive clients currently connected and registered on the broker.
Might check the value numbers.
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man8/mosquitto.8.html
 All items support the values -1, unlimited or infinity indicating no limit, except for priority and nice.
   If a hard limit or soft limit of a resource is set to a valid value, but outside of the
       supported range of the local system, the system may reject the new limit or unexpected behavior may occur.
http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man5/limits.conf.5.html
The limit setting are set per login not global or permanent, exist only for the duration of the session.
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http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man8/pam_limits.8.html If Linux PAM is compiled with audit support the module
      will report when it denies access based on limit of maximum number of concurrent login sessions.
conf=/path/to/limits.conf
           Indicate an alternative limits.conf style configuration file to override the default.
I hope that this will help. It was all of the documentation that was relevant I could find. May have to override the default settings.

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Bernard Stafford (bernard010) said :
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