I found the solution for the same problem on my environment, ( Solaris 10 ) here: http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-unix-nginx-too-many-open-files/ Quoting: .... "Then open the nginx configuration file (default: /etc/nginx/nginx.conf) and the following line right after the “worker_processes” entry line worker_rlimit_nofile 20480; Once both changes are made, run theby advegav - Nginx Mailing List - English