Error: Terminating since out of inotify watches.

[Adauto Serpa]

Hi guys,

One more time I'm here.

Today I tried put into production lsyncd in a much larger directory than I did in my tests. The directory has 217613 files.

the /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches operating system currently is 8192.

I believe that because of this configuration I received the following message:

Tue Jul 31 04:17:30 2018 Error: Terminating since out of inotify watches.

Consider increasing /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches

So I increased the value to 524288 and synchronization started.

Does lsyncd have any recommendations for this setting?

Best regard,

Adauto Serpa

[ram]

Hi,

this is a kernel imposed limit. highest it can go is 999999999 folders. run this command and restart lsyncd 

echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=999999999 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf && sudo sysctl -p

Regards,

Ram