diff --git a/lib/cpp/Makefile.am b/lib/cpp/Makefile.am
index 356afff..07540a1 100644
--- a/lib/cpp/Makefile.am
+++ b/lib/cpp/Makefile.am
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
                        src/transport/TSocketPool.cpp \
                        src/transport/TServerSocket.cpp \
                        src/transport/TTransportUtils.cpp \
+                       src/server/TServer.cpp \
                        src/server/TSimpleServer.cpp \
                        src/server/TThreadPoolServer.cpp \
                        src/server/TThreadedServer.cpp \
diff --git a/lib/cpp/src/server/TServer.cpp b/lib/cpp/src/server/TServer.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6febf98
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/cpp/src/server/TServer.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+// Copyright (c) 2006- Facebook
+// Distributed under the Thrift Software License
+//
+// See accompanying file LICENSE or visit the Thrift site at:
+// http://developers.facebook.com/thrift/
+
+#include <sys/time.h>
+#include <sys/resource.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+namespace facebook { namespace thrift { namespace server {
+
+int increase_max_fds(int max_fds=(1<<24))  {
+  struct rlimit fdmaxrl;
+
+  for(fdmaxrl.rlim_cur = max_fds, fdmaxrl.rlim_max = max_fds;
+      max_fds && (setrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &fdmaxrl) < 0);
+      fdmaxrl.rlim_cur = max_fds, fdmaxrl.rlim_max = max_fds) {
+    max_fds /= 2;
+  }
+
+  return  fdmaxrl.rlim_cur;
+}
+
+}}} // facebook::thrift::server
diff --git a/lib/cpp/src/server/TServer.h b/lib/cpp/src/server/TServer.h
index d7245c7..f05b2eb 100644
--- a/lib/cpp/src/server/TServer.h
+++ b/lib/cpp/src/server/TServer.h
@@ -188,6 +188,14 @@
 
 };
 
+/**
+ * Helper function to increase the max file descriptors limit
+ * for the current process and all of its children.
+ * By default, tries to increase it to as much as 2^24.
+ */
+ int increase_max_fds(int max_fds=(1<<24));
+
+
 }}} // facebook::thrift::server
 
 #endif // #ifndef _THRIFT_SERVER_TSERVER_H_