diff --git a/docker-compose.yml b/docker-compose.yml
index cee00aa..50b7492 100644
--- a/docker-compose.yml
+++ b/docker-compose.yml
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ services:
     shm_size: 8g
     security_opt:
       - seccomp=unconfined
+    ulimits:
+      nofile:
+        soft: 65536
+        hard: 65536
     volumes:
       - ./config.yaml:/app/config.yaml
       - ./voices:/app/voices
@@ -26,11 +30,12 @@ services:
       - HF_HUB_ENABLE_HF_TRANSFER=1
       # Required for RX 6700 XT (gfx1031) - not natively supported in ROCm 7.2.
       - HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=10.3.0
-      # Disable MIOpen's SQLite cache. Without this, cudnn.benchmark triggers an
-      # exhaustive kernel search and then crashes trying to write results to SQLite.
-      # PyTorch's own in-memory benchmark cache still works so warmup results are
-      # reused for all subsequent requests within the same container run.
+      # Disable MIOpen's SQLite cache — avoids crashes writing benchmark results.
+      # PyTorch's in-memory benchmark cache still applies within a container run.
       - MIOPEN_DISABLE_CACHE=1
+      # Disable MLIR-based ImplicitGEMM solvers. These compile MLIR kernels on the
+      # fly and hit 'too many open files' during the exhaustive benchmark search.
+      - MIOPEN_DEBUG_CONV_IMPLICIT_GEMM=0
       # - HF_TOKEN=your_token_here
 
 volumes: