FSEventStream woes

[aMoniker]

I'm running grunt-contrib-watch v~0.5.3 with node v0.10.24 and npm v1.3.21 on OSX Mavericks.

When I run grunt with my default task set to watch, it's fine until I change a file, at which point I get:

(CarbonCore.framework) FSEventStreamStart: register_with_server: ERROR: f2d_register_rpc() => (null) (-21)

I'm using ['**/*', '!**/node_modules/**'] to watch, which I assume has something to do with the problem. OSX doesn't allow that many files to be watched at once or somesuch.

[shama]

That is a bug in node (that should have been fixed but maybe not released) with watching a large amount of files. See nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#5463

Do a grunt watch --verbose and make sure it's not watching more files then you need.

[aMoniker]

Yeah, looks like some people are having luck downgrading node to 0.10.17, but that doesn't seem to work for me.

Thanks for suggesting using verbose mode, there were definitely some vendor directories I didn't need to watch :)