PHP-Errors within widget

I use piwik 0.4.3 with php5 & mysql and get the following errors on dashboard

Visit overview widget

Warning: require_once(Zend/Exception.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: Too many open files in system in /home/htdocs/[REPLACED]/piwik/libs/Zend/Registry.php on line 145

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'Zend/Exception.php' (include_path='/home/htdocs/[REPLACED]/piwik/core:/home/htdocs/[REPLACED]/piwik/libs:/home/htdocs/[REPLACED]/piwik/plugins') in /home/htdocs/[REPLACED]/piwik/libs/Zend/Registry.php on line 145

can anyone please help?

You’ve either found a PHP bug, build problem (eg linking with a bad libc), or hit a system limit (kernel or ulimit).

Try using lsof to diagnose the problem.