If there are too many files open, EMFILE errors will flood the terminal

[uhidontkno]

While I was trying to get started with Next.js, I was hit with EMFILE, or the "too many open files" error in Linux my terminal gets FLOODED with these errors in less than 2 seconds:

 Watchpack Error (watcher): Error: EMFILE: too many open files, watch '/home/rare/Desktop/projects/nextjs_starter/nextjs-dashboard'
Watchpack Error (watcher): Error: EMFILE: too many open files, watch '/home/rare/Desktop/projects/nextjs_starter'
Watchpack Error (watcher): Error: EMFILE: too many open files, watch '/home/rare/Desktop/projects'
Watchpack Error (watcher): Error: EMFILE: too many open files, watch '/home/rare/Desktop'
Watchpack Error (watcher): Error: EMFILE: too many open files, watch '/home/rare'
Watchpack Error (watcher): Error: EMFILE: too many open files, watch '/home'

Like it was essentially making an infinite loop of these errors.

[uhidontkno]

Note: my laptop has the infamous issue of EMFILE all the time, while most servers do a decently good job at handling this, it seemed like Watchpack didn't and just decided to spam try and watch the directory and all the parent directories also

[alexander-akait]

There is an answer https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72762834/watchpack-error-watcher-error-emfile-too-many-open-files-watch and why it happend