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Increase fs.inotify.max_user_watches in docker container

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Opening certain projects leads to this error. However I am not sure how to work around it within the container. I have tried simply mounting a modified /etc/sysctl.conf from my host but it doesn’t seem to make a difference.

How can we increase this within the container?

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wellmsancommented, May 31, 2020

I resolved by running the command on docker host machine:

echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf

sudo sysctl -p

Success, thanks!

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ammariocommented, Aug 8, 2019

@perguth Docker mounts /proc as read-only since many of its knobs are global.

If you run that same command on the host, the container will transparently inherit the new setting.

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