"Too many apps want to monitor file changes"

[avrazman (Avraham Cohen)]

I get this pop up when I download games with the heroic launcher. I don’t understand what else could have been monitoring the file changes. Also is it meant to use 105% of instances by default?

Sorry I don’t understand what this means

[yuntaz (Sakiko Togawa)]

What is Inotify Instance Capacity Low notification?

I am using Fedora KDE spin 38. And after some usage I get a notification saying “Inotify Instance Capacity Low” and You have too many applications wanting to monitor file changes! When the capacity is exhausted it will prevent further file monitoring from working correctly. Either close some applications or increase the limit. Currently using 92% of instances and 2% of watches. [Screenshot_20230706_172853] There is a button increase instance limit. What does this do and why this notificatio…

[avrazman (Avraham Cohen)]

I looked through the thread but I am still stuck. Will increasing the instances hurt performance or my drive?

[yuntaz (Sakiko Togawa)]

Yeah, it will increase memory usage, but the amount is very small. I think the default limit for the number of instances is 128, and 105% of that is 135, so increasing instance limit shouldn’t cause any measurable performance issues.

[avrazman (Avraham Cohen)]

Awesome! Thanks so much!