From 0e4fa5024431705535129d4199c7af8bdce5e766 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Predrag Rogic <prezha@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2025 23:11:41 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] set sysctl params for inotify, to avoid 'too many open files'
 errors

---
 hack/jenkins/common.sh | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/hack/jenkins/common.sh b/hack/jenkins/common.sh
index c9349bf110..cd65f014cb 100755
--- a/hack/jenkins/common.sh
+++ b/hack/jenkins/common.sh
@@ -89,6 +89,13 @@ if [ "$(uname)" = "Darwin" ]; then
   fi
 fi
 
+## set sysctl params for inotify, to avoid "too many open files" errors
+## ref: https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/distributed-cloud/bare-metal/docs/installing/configure-os/ubuntu
+if [ "$OS" == "linux" ]; then
+  sudo sysctl -w fs.inotify.max_user_instances=8192
+  sudo sysctl -w fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288
+fi
+
 # We need pstree for the restart cronjobs
 if [ "$(uname)" != "Darwin" ]; then
   sudo apt-get -y install lsof psmisc dnsutils