Could not watch folder: too many open files

[yianni-ververis]

I get this error

Could not watch folder: too many open files

[yianni-ververis]

can you add -ignore flag?

[divanvisagie]

I had this same issue, tracked it down to the fact that I had a node_modules folder in the folder I was watching.

With node_modules:

Without node_modules

I think adding an option to ignore folders would be great or maybe even read off of .gitignore ?

[yianni-ververis]

exactly!! I have to remove the node_modules, watcher and then npm install & npm audit fix again

[TobyWilkes]

Suggested fix here #41

[vonhraban]

I have the same issue, blaming in on the vendor directory.

$ find vendor/ -type f | wc -l
    2423

Which does not even seem like that many files

$ ulimit
unlimited

I am not sure .gitignore solution will work since git ignored files may have an impact on how the application is run. I would suggest instead to have .watchignore file or something, that would contain glob patterns for those folder/files that do not need to be watched

Edit Checked the source code, vendor directory is excluded anyways. I do not know then what this is related to, I have 7 watchers running at the same time but the number of files is no way close to the limit; besides it works for others on the same repositories