How do I find out what inotify watches have been registered?

Question

I have my inotify watch limit set to 1024 (I think the default is 128?). Despite that, yeoman, Guard and Dropbox constantly fail, and tell me to up my inotify limit. Before do

Answer 1

inotify filesystem options

sysctl fs.inotify

opened files

lsof | grep inotify | wc -l

Increase the values like this

• sysctl -n -w fs.inotify.max_user_watches=16384
• sysctl -n -w fs.inotify.max_user_instances=512