Increase inotify watches

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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 this command to apply the change:

   sudo sysctl -p --system


For more information see https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000020048