diff --git a/conf/README b/conf/README
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..880cdfa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/conf/README
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+To get around the open file limit, do the following (for Ubuntu):
+
+sudo vim /etc/sysctl.conf
+
+Add the following line:
+fs.file-max = 65000
+
+sudo vim /etc/security/limits.conf
+
+Add the following lines:
+www-data       soft    nofile   9000
+www-data       hard    nofile   65000
+
+(restart for the above to take affect)
+
+sudo vim /etc/pam.d/common-session
+
+Add the following line:
+session required pam_limits.so
+
+sudo sysctl -p
+
+sudo vim /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
+
+Add the following line:
+worker_rlimit_nofile 9000;
+
+sudo service nginx restart
diff --git a/conf/nginx.conf b/conf/nginx.conf
index 3bd9e4c..8f8b59c 100644
--- a/conf/nginx.conf
+++ b/conf/nginx.conf
@@ -1,9 +1,15 @@
-# You may add here your
-# server {
-#	...
-# }
-# statements for each of your virtual hosts to this file
+user www-data;
+worker_processes 8;
+pid /var/run/nginx.pid;
+worker_rlimit_nofile 9000;
 
+events {
+	worker_connections 19000;
+}
+
+http {
+
+# setup list of socket files that will receive http requests
 upstream mysockets {
 	server unix:/tmp/socket-test/multiserv1.sock;
 	server unix:/tmp/socket-test/multiserv2.sock;
@@ -18,6 +24,7 @@ server {
 	location / {
 		proxy_pass http://mysockets;
 	}
+	# browsers will auto request this file, and we don't care
 	location = /favicon.ico {
 		access_log off;
 		log_not_found off;
@@ -25,3 +32,4 @@ server {
 	}
 }
 
+}