Node.js project crashes when I watch my entire directory?

[jakeleboeuf]

I have an empty express project (with Jade and Stylus- nothing fancy). If I run livereloadx on the entire project directory with --exclude */{bin,node_modules,test}/ it is crashing with about 50 of these errors:

node[55111] (FSEvents.framework) FSEventStreamStart: register_with_server: ERROR: f2d_register_rpc() => (null) (-21)

However if I just watch the views directory it works great.

Terminal output

[jakeleboeuf]

Looks like it might possibly be related to this grunt-contrib-watch issue?

Could it have something to do with compiling stylus?

[nitoyon]

This error is caused by watching too much directories on OSX, and fixed in Node.js v0.11. See joyent/node#5463 (comment) for detail.

Before v0.12 is released, watch less directories please.

[jakeleboeuf]

Strange- I'm excluding all node_modules and a large icon directory. I don't have more than 20 files in my directory out side of those two dirs... any reason this would not be working?

livereloadx $(pwd) --exclude '*/{node_modules,iconic}/' --include '*.{jade, styl}

Spits out:

Jakes-MacBook-Pro:portfolio jklb$ livereloadx $(pwd) --exclude '*/{node_modules,iconic}/' --include '*.{jade,styl}'
2014-08-11 17:07:53 - info:  Config:
2014-08-11 17:07:53 - info:    - mode:   default
2014-08-11 17:07:53 - info:    - port:   35729
2014-08-11 17:07:53 - info:    - filter:
2014-08-11 17:07:53 - info:      1: exclude "*/{node_modules,iconic}/"
2014-08-11 17:07:53 - info:      2: include "*.{jade,styl}"
2014-08-11 17:07:53 - info:      3: exclude ".{git,svn}/"
2014-08-11 17:07:53 - info:      4: include "*/"
2014-08-11 17:07:53 - info:      5: include "*.{html,shtml,tmpl,xml,css,js,json,jpeg,jpg,gif,png,ico,cgi,php,py,pl,pm,rb}"
2014-08-11 17:07:53 - info:      6: exclude "*"
2014-08-11 17:07:53 - info:  Waiting on port 35729...
2014-08-11 17:07:53 - info:  Watching "/Users/jklb/Development/jklb/portfolio"...

[nitoyon]

Are you using livereloadx v0.3.5?

Before v0.3.4, filter option doesn't work correctly (#10)

[jakeleboeuf]

Yep, livereloadx@0.3.5

[nitoyon]

I read source code again, and found that livereloadx watches all descendant directories even if they are excluded by --exclude option.

Reopen.