diff --git a/lightllm/server/api_start.py b/lightllm/server/api_start.py
index a42acef884..b5aadc981f 100644
--- a/lightllm/server/api_start.py
+++ b/lightllm/server/api_start.py
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 import uuid
 import subprocess
 import math
-from lightllm.utils.start_utils import process_manager
+from lightllm.utils.start_utils import configure_decode_open_file_limit, process_manager
 from .metrics.manager import start_metric_manager
 from .httpserver.req_id_generator_server import start_req_id_generator_server
 from .embed_cache.manager import start_cache_manager
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ def _set_envs_and_config(args: StartArgs):
 
 def _launch_subprocesses(args: StartArgs):
     _validate_pd_features(args)
+    configure_decode_open_file_limit(args)
     _set_envs_and_config(args)
 
     if args.target_vocab_topk_sampling is not None:
diff --git a/lightllm/utils/start_utils.py b/lightllm/utils/start_utils.py
index 93bc95a436..28a0e5566e 100644
--- a/lightllm/utils/start_utils.py
+++ b/lightllm/utils/start_utils.py
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import os
 import ctypes
+import resource
 import signal
 import subprocess
 import sys
@@ -253,4 +254,23 @@ def kill_recursive(proc):
             logger.warning(f"Process {process.pid} does not exist.")
 
 
+def configure_decode_open_file_limit(args):
+    if args.run_mode != "decode":
+        return
+
+    # Each admitted request keeps several shared memory mappings open.
+    soft, hard = resource.getrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_NOFILE)
+    preferred = 65536
+    target = preferred if hard == resource.RLIM_INFINITY else min(preferred, hard)
+    if soft != resource.RLIM_INFINITY and soft < target:
+        try:
+            resource.setrlimit(resource.RLIMIT_NOFILE, (target, hard))
+        except (OSError, ValueError):
+            logger.warning("Could not raise Decode open-file soft limit from %d to %d", soft, target, exc_info=True)
+        else:
+            logger.info("Raised the Decode open-file soft limit from %d to %d", soft, target)
+    if hard != resource.RLIM_INFINITY and hard < preferred:
+        logger.warning("Decode open-file hard limit is %d; a burst of requests may exhaust it", hard)
+
+
 process_manager = SubmoduleManager()