---
title: My first issue with Meteor solved quickly
date: 2012-10-20
description: Cómo resolver el error 'watch ENOSPC' en Meteor ajustando los parámetros de inotify en Linux para monitoreo de archivos.
tags:
- meteor
- javascript
- linux
- inotify
- troubleshooting
extra:
  deprecated_reason: Meteor 0.x pre-1.0 es completamente distinto a Meteor moderno; el error ENOSPC sigue apareciendo en otros watchers pero el contexto cambió
  deprecated: true
---

## My first issue with Meteor solved quickly

Today I was hacking on my first app with [Meteor](http://meteor.com/) and I
stumbled upon the following issue right after running the application for the
first time:

```js
[tzicatl@hormiga-gris preguntame]$ meteor
[[[[[ ~/Aplicaciones/Codigo/Meteor/preguntame ]]]]]

Running on: http://localhost:3000/

fs.js:837
    throw errnoException(errno, 'watch');
          ^
Error: watch ENOSPC
    at errnoException (fs.js:806:11)
    at FSWatcher.start (fs.js:837:11)
    at Object.fs.watch (fs.js:861:11)
    at _.extend._scan (/usr/lib64/meteor/app/meteor/run.js:355:24)
    at Array.forEach (native)
    at Function._.each._.forEach (/usr/lib64/meteor/app/lib/third/underscore.js:76:11)
    at new DependencyWatcher (/usr/lib64/meteor/app/meteor/run.js:291:5)
    at exports.run.start_watching (/usr/lib64/meteor/app/meteor/run.js:490:17)
    at exports.run.restart_server (/usr/lib64/meteor/app/meteor/run.js:547:5)
    at /usr/lib64/meteor/app/meteor/run.js:607:9
```

I found [this thread](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10129496/error-starting-todos-example)
on StackOverflow, but that specific workaround didn't work out well. So the
user *Lander* gave me a kind hand and suggested that I should tweak
`fs.inotify.max_user_watches` and set it to `10000`.

So, I combined both solutions (the one from StackOverflow and the one from
Lander) and this fixed the issue:

```bash
echo 10000 > /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_watches
echo 10000 > /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances
```

Back to hacking again.