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posted in category Systems Software / GNU Linux
posted at 17. Dec '23

Howto Increase Maximum Number Of Watched Files

Standard is around 128k.

cat /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches
sysctl fs.inotify.max_user_watches=150000

or put it into /etc/sysctl.conf to have it permanently and sysctl -p or restart.

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