Arch/Manjaro - wiki/Increasing-the-amount-of-inotify-watchers

[hrvoj3e]

This needs to be updated - on my fresh install of Manjaro 17.1.7 there is a file 50-max_user_watches.conf which overrides this.

/etc/sysctl.d/
├── 40-max-user-watches.conf
└── 50-max_user_watches.conf

sudo sysctl --system

* Applying /etc/sysctl.d/40-max-user-watches.conf ...
fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 524288

* Applying /etc/sysctl.d/50-max_user_watches.conf ...
fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 16384


cat /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches
16384

WIKI

https://github.com/guard/listen/wiki/Increasing-the-amount-of-inotify-watchers

echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/40-max-user-watches.conf && sudo sysctl --system

[ionling]

Same with me, Manjaro 17.1.11 Hakoila.

[efosao]

Thanks for the heads up @hrvoj3e - I was spinning my wheels with this one.

[ioquatix]

Can you please supply a PR.

[SrBrahma]

Thanks. Also, be aware that the difference isn't just the "40" to "50", the '-' also turns into '_'.

[SuperITMan]

@ioquatix How can I do a PR for a wiki page ? 😊

I took a look on Google but didn't find anything except this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10642928/how-to-pull-request-a-wiki-page-on-github

Thanks for your help!

Regards,
Alexis

[Beloin]

So all we need to change is in this file? I was experiencing this same issue:
Operating System: Manjaro Linux

KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.69.0
Qt Version: 5.14.2
Kernel Version: 5.4.33-3-MANJARO
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i5-8250U CPU @ 1.60GHz
Memory: 7,7 GiB of RAM

[Moxie1776]

Glad I found this, I have been fighting this.

Operating System: Manjaro Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.19.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.73.0
Qt Version: 5.15.0
Kernel Version: 5.8.0-1-MANJARO
OS Type: 64-bit

[jvik]

Why do I need to do this every time I reboot?

[ColinDKelley]

@jvik I'm not sure, but I hope someone can chime in with an answer.
Meanwhile, I wanted to note that the Wiki has been deprecated in favor of the README, with all the old Wiki content merged over there. That makes it easy for anyone to suggest improvements in the form of a PR as @ioquatix requested above.

[ColinDKelley]

I'm closing out this ticket since it has gotten stale. But as stated above, we welcome any PRs to improve the documentation in the README.