<blockquote>The inevitable file descriptor limits on Linux means that for every database connection you make, you use up one of the 1,024 file descriptors that

<blockquote>The inevitable file descriptor limits on Linux means that for every database connection you make, you use up one of the 1,024 file descriptors that are allocated to your process by default. Changing these limits is not only non-trivial, but they don’t tend to stick.</blockquote> You're clearly a talented programmer, but perhaps employee #2 should be a sysadmin.