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2 May 2023

  • curprev 11:4311:43, 2 May 2023‎ Jonas talk contribs‎ 613 bytes +613‎ Created page with "On Linux, the collection watcher uses inotify to monitor any external changes to files, it is important to configure enough inotify watches. To prevent a situation where Strawberry fails to watch all directories, it is recommended to increase the default watches limit (to, say, 512K): Add the following line to either /etc/sysctl.conf file or a new *.conf file (e.g. inotify-watch.conf) under /etc/sysctl.d/ directory: fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 524288 Then run t..."
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