diff --git a/sdm/libs/hwc/hwc_session.cpp b/sdm/libs/hwc/hwc_session.cpp
index cac8a8f..ff6b2a7 100644
--- a/sdm/libs/hwc/hwc_session.cpp
+++ b/sdm/libs/hwc/hwc_session.cpp
@@ -188,6 +188,13 @@
   }
 
   connected_displays_[HWC_DISPLAY_PRIMARY] = 1;
+  struct rlimit fd_limit = {};
+  getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &fd_limit);
+  fd_limit.rlim_cur = fd_limit.rlim_cur * 2;
+  auto err = setrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &fd_limit);
+  if (err) {
+    DLOGW("Unable to increase fd limit -  err: %d, %s", errno, strerror(errno));
+  }
   return 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/sdm/libs/hwc2/hwc_session.cpp b/sdm/libs/hwc2/hwc_session.cpp
index ee4a6e7..f963d35 100644
--- a/sdm/libs/hwc2/hwc_session.cpp
+++ b/sdm/libs/hwc2/hwc_session.cpp
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2014-2016, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2014-2017, The Linux Foundation. All rights reserved.
  * Not a Contribution.
  *
  * Copyright 2015 The Android Open Source Project
@@ -136,6 +136,13 @@
     return -errno;
   }
 
+  struct rlimit fd_limit = {};
+  getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &fd_limit);
+  fd_limit.rlim_cur = fd_limit.rlim_cur * 2;
+  auto err = setrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &fd_limit);
+  if (err) {
+    DLOGW("Unable to increase fd limit -  err:%d, %s", errno, strerror(errno));
+  }
   return 0;
 }