Warwick Hunter: If tail -f file gives "too many open files"

2011-02-07

If tail -f file gives "too many open files"

If tail -f file gives "too many open files" then add this to your /etc/sysctl.conf

fs.inotify.max_user_watches=16384

Or interactively:

# sysctl -w fs.inotify.max_user_watches=16384

1 comment:

Warwick Hunter said...: I actually had to set the value to be 32767 on one of my machines.; 9 February 2011 at 16:40

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