So then how do I turn that off? And why is it creating tens of thousands in multiple instances for a project of 700 files?
I appreciate the markdown advice, but it does feel a bit skirting the issue. However, what I can give:
COUNT PID USER COMMAND
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20541 179337 user /opt/sublime_text/sublime_text --detached
20540 182068 user /opt/sublime_text/sublime_text --crawl 179337:crawl:1 /home/user/.config/sublime-text /home/user/.cache/sublime-text /opt/sublime_text/Packages
20540 182067 user /opt/sublime_text/sublime_text --crawl 179337:crawl:1 /home/user/.config/sublime-text /home/user/.cache/sublime-text /opt/sublime_text/Packages
20540 182066 user /opt/sublime_text/sublime_text --crawl 179337:crawl:1 /home/user/.config/sublime-text /home/user/.cache/sublime-text /opt/sublime_text/Packages
20540 182065 user /opt/sublime_text/sublime_text --crawl 179337:crawl:1 /home/user/.config/sublime-text /home/user/.cache/sublime-text /opt/sublime_text/Packages
20540 182064 user /opt/sublime_text/sublime_text --crawl 179337:crawl:1 /home/user/.config/sublime-text /home/user/.cache/sublime-text /opt/sublime_text/Packages
20540 179409 user /opt/sublime_text/plugin_host-3.8 179337 /opt/sublime_text/sublime_text /home/user/.config/sublime-text /home/user/.cache/sublime-text /opt/sublime_text/Packages
20540 179406 user /opt/sublime_text/plugin_host-3.3 179337 /opt/sublime_text/sublime_text /home/user/.config/sublime-text /home/user/.cache/sublime-text /opt/sublime_text/Packages
No, but how does that address the issue at hand? Does that mean I can only use safe mode?
Also, as of that dump above, I had zero files open. I simply opened a folder and started clicking expand on the directory structure, and then my system hung for about 20 seconds, and the script to grab the INotify count also took far longer than it should. It full-spikes my CPU. Again, on a directory structure with maybe 4 layers and a couple-dozen folders, maximum 700 files including packages.