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Discussion on: Running VSCode On Linux: Hitting My Watcher Limit And What To Do About It

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Paweł Świątkowski

Actually, having to increase the limit may mean that something is wrong with VSCode or rather one of its plugins. Such as that it monitors node_modules or something.

While increasing the limits helps to hack around the problem, it may actually backfire later. Would be useful to report it somewhere. I remember quite similar discussion about Parcel.

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Stephen Charles Weiss

100% agree with this. At the time, however, I needed the hack and an ability to see my changes.

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oof2win2

Hiyas. This is the issue that is dealing with the whole amount of file watchers not working properly and watching node_modules directories in multi-root workspaces.