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# Increase Limit of Inotify Watchers

To check current limit of inotify watchs:

```bash
cat /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches
```

To change Inotify watch limit:

```bash
echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf
sudo sysctl -p
```

***Source:*** [***GitHub***](https://github.com/guard/listen/wiki/Increasing-the-amount-of-inotify-watchers#the-technical-details)