Inotify

If you have a large number of streams (>70), you may encounter Inotify restrictions. Then when creating new streams in the container log you can see message:

Error: too many open files

By default the following parameters are set in Ubuntu:

$ sysctl fs.inotify
fs.inotify.max_queued_events = 16384
fs.inotify.max_user_instances = 128
fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 524288

To increase the limits, add to file /etc/sysctl.conf the following parameters:

$ sudo su
$ cat << EOF >> /etc/sysctl.conf
fs.inotify.max_queued_events = 16384
fs.inotify.max_user_instances = 10240
fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 524288
EOF

and apply the settings:

sudo sysctl -p

check:

$ sysctl fs.inotify
fs.inotify.max_queued_events = 16384
fs.inotify.max_user_instances = 10240
fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 524288