UserWarning: There are too many files in your application for changes in all of them to be monitored

[bsr]

Hello,

First time using 1.8.0 and getting this warning. I restarted few times in vain.

Well, I have my client folder within my src folder (where app.yaml sits), which has many client side repositories (javascript libraries, etc). It is in fact a symbolic link to client application, and not sure whether is it counting towards that many files. Is there a way to exclude that folder (say 'client') from file watch? or how can get rid of the below warning, or is it harmless?

GAE/1.8.0/google/appengine/tools/devappserver2/mtime_file_watcher.py:82: UserWarning: There are too many files in your application for changes in all of them to be monitored. You may have to restart the development server to see some changes to your files.

  'There are too many files in your application for '

[bsr]

I guess it is not harmless, as my cpu usage is 100% with 1.8.0

switched back to 1.7.6, and works alright.

Please let me know.

[David Symonds]

Which OS are you on? How big is your $GOPATH?

GOPATH is watched because your app might be pulling those packages in.

On some OSes you can twiddle a knob to increase the watch limits.

[bsr]

Thanks Dave. I am on Mac OS X Version 10.7.5.

I will remove packages I don't use currently from GOPATH (there are not that many).

I have this structure

PATH/server

PATH/server/src/<sub packages>

PATH/server/src/app.yaml

PATH/server/src/client

where client folder is a symbolic link to all client side stuff (js, html ..)

I kept it here so it will be under web root. 

in my app.yaml file, I have config like

- url: /scripts

  static_dir: client/scripts

- url: /img

  static_dir: client/img

- url: /styles

  static_dir: client/styles

so,

1. is there a way to structure app.yaml so I can have my client files accessible to webroot, but not under src.

2. or, skip <client> folder from dev_server watch.

thanks again for the prompt response

[David Symonds]

On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 3:49 PM, bsr <bsr...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 1. is there a way to structure app.yaml so I can have my client files
> accessible to webroot, but not under src.

You could use a separate GOPATH for your App Engine development.

> 2. or, skip <client> folder from dev_server watch.

I don't think you can, but that might make a reasonable feature request.