Problem

The inotify instances limit is too low for Intellij and it will show a warning. Searching for this warning in Google leads to this web page: https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/IDEADEV/Inotify+Instances+Limit

It shows a way to temporarily change the "max_user_instances" of inotify. So after a system reboot the setting is lost. Readers might also want to know a way to permanently set the "max_user_instances".

Suggestion

Add information to how to set the "max_user_instances" value permanently. This can be done by adding "fs.inotify.max_user_instances=256" to your sysctl configuration. (By adding this line in /etc/sysctl.conf or to a new file in /etc/sysctl.d/)

This depends on the Linux distribution though. Here is an article for the inotify watches: https://github.com/guard/listen/wiki/Increasing-the-amount-of-inotify-watchers

 

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