Too many open file handles

Question

I\'m working on a huge legacy Java application, with a lot of handwritten stuff, which nowadays you\'d let a framework handle.

The problem I\'m facing right now is

Answer 1

Its worth bearing in mind that open sockets also consume file handles on Unix systems. So it could very well be something like a database connection pool leak (e.g. open database connections not being closed and returned to the pool) that is leading to this issue - certainly I have seen this error before caused by a connection pool leak.