ulimit -n 1024 Ensure that you pick a number that is larger than the number of files you expect to be monitored. ``kqueue(2)`` does not provide enough information about the following things: * The destination path of a file or directory that is renamed. * Creation of a file or directory within a directory; in this case, ``kqueue(2)`` only indicates a modified event on the parent directory. Therefore, this emitter takes a snapshot of the directory tree when ``kqueue(2)`` detects a change on the file system to be able to determine the above information. :param event_queue: The event queue to fill with events. :param watch: A watch object representing the directory to monitor. :type watch: :class:`watchdog.observers.api.ObservedWatch` :param timeout: Read events blocking timeout (in seconds). :type timeout: ``float`` :param event_filter: Collection of event types to emit, or None for no filtering (default). :type event_filter: Iterable[:class:`watchdog.events.FileSystemEvent`] | None :param stat: stat function. See ``os.stat`` for details. N)