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Is there a way to increase the amount of inotify watchers without having admin privileges?

In worst case, with apt-get?

I am not admin, but have sudo apt-get install permissions.

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  • Why do you need to do that? There might be another way around it if you explain the problem that forces you to use too many.
    – Eduardo Trápani
    Mar 12, 2020 at 20:34
  • Basically I would like to run several inode hungry apps: a rails app (even perhaps old version and new to see the diff), browser, few Intellijideas instances
    – Se Bo
    Mar 12, 2020 at 20:45

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You cannot do it without root privileges. The limit is there to make sure no user DoS-es the system. You should ask your system administrator for a higher value.

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