Brokers is down by “java.io.IOException: Too many open files”

[Yang Cui]

Our Kafka cluster is broken down by  the problem “java.io.IOException: Too many 
open files”  three times in 3 weeks.

We encounter these problem on both 0.9.0.1 and 0.10.2.1 version.

The error is like:

java.io.IOException: Too many open files
        at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketChannelImpl.accept0(Native Method)
        at 
sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketChannelImpl.accept(ServerSocketChannelImpl.java:422)
        at 
sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketChannelImpl.accept(ServerSocketChannelImpl.java:250)
        at kafka.network.Acceptor.accept(SocketServer.scala:340)
        at kafka.network.Acceptor.run(SocketServer.scala:283)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

Is someone encounter the similar problem?