Added EMFILE error resolution to README #398
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A [similar issue](ember-cli/ember-cli#2226 (comment)) cropped up over at ember-cli, and reminded me of an issue with grunt-contrib-watch and too many open files. Lots of people are saying this solved the for them and it seems like a better solution than increasing ulimit or altering launchctl, so I wanted to share with grunt people.
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| In some versions of OSX the above solution doesn't work. In that case try `launchctl limit maxfiles 10480 10480 ` and restart your terminal. See [here](http://superuser.com/questions/261023/how-to-change-default-ulimit-values-in-mac-os-x-10-6). | |||
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| If you are using the Sublime Text editor, make sure you are ignoring files sublime shouldn't need to care about by adding something like the following to your User Settings JSON file: | |||
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| "folder_exclude_patterns": [".svn", ".git", ".hg", "CVS", "tmp/*"] | |||
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Should include node_modules and bower_components.
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A similar issue cropped up over at ember-cli, and reminded me of an issue with grunt-contrib-watch and too many open files. Lots of people are saying this solved the for them and it seems like a better solution than increasing ulimit or altering launchctl, so I wanted to share with grunt people.