diff --git a/rootdir/init.rc b/rootdir/init.rc
index 7c3697b30..87920fb9d 100644
--- a/rootdir/init.rc
+++ b/rootdir/init.rc
@@ -242,7 +242,10 @@ on init
     export DOWNLOAD_CACHE /data/cache
 
     # set RLIMIT_NICE to allow priorities from 19 to -20
-    setrlimit 13 40 40
+    setrlimit nice 40 40
+
+    # Allow up to 32K FDs per process
+    setrlimit nofile 32768 32768
 
     # This allows the ledtrig-transient properties to be created here so
     # that they can be chown'd to system:system later on boot