Fixing k9s 'Too Many Open Files' Error on K3s
The Problem I was using k9s to check logs on my K3s homelab cluster when I hit this frustrating error: to create fsnotify watcher: too many open files stream closed: EOF for development/drawdb-ddf8d9569-grfff (drawdb) The log stream would just close immediately, and I couldn’t see anything. Annoying. What’s Actually Happening Here’s the thing - this isn’t a problem with k9s on your laptop. It’s happening on the K3s node itself. When applications watch files (like development tools, file syncing services, or even k9s monitoring your cluster), Linux uses something called inotify watchers. There’s a limit to how many of these you can have. ...