brianmay
Error: EMFILE: too many open files, watch
This has been annoying me for some time:
Error from chokidar (/home/brian/tree/personal/relixir/robotica/robotica_face/assets/node_modules/css-loader/dist/runtime): Error: EMFILE: too many open files, watch '/home/brian/tree/personal/relixir/robotica/robotica_face/assets/node_modules/css-loader/dist/runtime/api.js'
This message gets displayed for every file in the assets directory, when starting the dev instance. If I stop other running programs, close browser tabs, it will come good temporary, but then go bad again. Only sure fix is to reboot my computer.
Phoenix is the only thing that seems to be affected, and as far as I can tell it isn’t actually affecting running of the application.
My computer is Debian/bullseye.
This is the only running copy of elxir running on this computer.
Wondering if there is something on my system - maybe even the Linux kernel - that is leaking open files.
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kokolegorille
Did You change this for Webpack 5?
Maybe like this?
node: [
"node_modules/webpack/bin/webpack.js",
"--mode",
"development",
"--watch",
"--watch-options-stdin",
cd: Path.expand("../assets", __DIR__)
]
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