Gulp Error: watch ENOSPC

Question

Hi i'm getting this error while running gulp watch. im using vueify in laravel project. why is this happening. it was working fine all these days and this came in today.

$ gulp watch  
[12:56:01] Using gulpfile ~/Documents/web_projects/next-home/gulpfile.js  
[12:56:01] Starting 'watch'...  
[12:56:01] Starting 'browserify'...  
Fetching Browserify Source Files...  
    - resources/assets/js/app.js  
Saving To...  
   - public/js/app.js  
[12:56:02] Finished 'browserify' after 707 ms  
[12:56:02] 'watch' errored after 722 ms  
[12:56:02] Error: watch /home/bazi/Documents/web_projects/next-home/resources/assets/less/ ENOSPC  
    at exports._errnoException (util.js:893:11)  
    at FSWatcher.start (fs.js:1313:19)  
    at Object.fs.watch (fs.js:1341:11)  
    at Gaze._watchDir (/home/bazi/Documents/web_projects/next-home/node_modules/gaze/lib/gaze.js:289:30)  
    at /home/bazi/Documents/web_projects/next-home/node_modules/gaze/lib/gaze.js:358:10
    at iterate (/home/bazi/Documents/web_projects/next-home/node_modules/gaze/lib/helper.js:52:5)  
    at Object.forEachSeries (/home/bazi/Documents/web_projects/next-home/node_modules/gaze/lib/helper.js:66:3)  
    at Gaze._initWatched (/home/bazi/Documents/web_projects/next-home/node_modules/gaze/lib/gaze.js:354:10)  
    at Gaze.add (/home/bazi/Documents/web_projects/next-home/node_modules/gaze/lib/gaze.js:177:8)  
    at new Gaze (/home/bazi/Documents/web_projects/next-home/node_modules/gaze/lib/gaze.js:74:10)  
events.js:154  
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event  
      ^  
Error: watch /home/bazi/Documents/web_projects/next-home/package.json ENOSPC  
    at exports._errnoException (util.js:893:11)  
    at FSWatcher.start (fs.js:1313:19)  
    at Object.fs.watch (fs.js:1341:11)  
    at createFsWatchInstance (/home/bazi/Documents/web_projects/next-home/node_modules/chokidar/lib/nodefs-handler.js:37:15)  
    at setFsWatchListener (/home/bazi/Documents/web_projects/next-home/node_modules/chokidar/lib/nodefs-handler.js:80:15)  
    at FSWatcher.NodeFsHandler._watchWithNodeFs (/home/bazi/Documents/web_projects/next-home/node_modules/chokidar/lib/nodefs-handler.js:228:14)  
    at FSWatcher.NodeFsHandler._handleFile (/home/bazi/Documents/web_projects/next-home/node_modules/chokidar/lib/nodefs-handler.js:255:21)  
    at FSWatcher.<anonymous> (/home/bazi/Documents/web_projects/next-home/node_modules/chokidar/lib/nodefs-handler.js:473:21)  
    at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:82:15)  

and this is my gulpfile.js

var elixir = require('laravel-elixir');
require('laravel-elixir-vueify');
elixir(function(mix) {
    mix.less('app.less');
    mix.browserify('app.js');
});

Answer 1

From http://www.samundra.com.np/solved-gulp-watch-error-enospc/1386 Try this: Why this issue occured? There is the limit in the number of files that can be watched in a system. We have to increase this number. The below command can be used to increase this number.

$ echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=582222 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf && sudo sysctl -p

Related Links https://github.com/gulpjs/gulp/issues/217

It worked for me. Or decrease the number of files your watcher needs to watch.