Error: EMFILE: too many open files, watch

[chrisryanouellette]

Platform & Details
Computer: M4 Macbook Air
Ram: 16gb
Version: Tahoe 21.6
Node: 22.22.3

I also tried node 20 & 24, same error.

Please let me know what else I can provide.

Full error message

spawn EBADF
This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). The promise rejected with the reason:
Error: EMFILE: too many open files, watch
    at FSEvent.FSWatcher._handle.onchange (node:internal/fs/watchers:207:21)
    at FSEvent.callbackTrampoline (node:internal/async_hooks:130:17)
Error: EMFILE: too many open files, watch
    at FSEvent.FSWatcher._handle.onchange (node:internal/fs/watchers:207:21)
    at FSEvent.callbackTrampoline (node:internal/async_hooks:130:17)
Unhandled Rejection for:  Promise {
  <rejected> Error: EMFILE: too many open files, watch
      at FSEvent.FSWatcher._handle.onchange (node:internal/fs/watchers:207:21)
      at FSEvent.callbackTrampoline (node:internal/async_hooks:130:17) {
    errno: -24,
    syscall: 'watch',
    code: 'EMFILE',
    filename: null
  },
  [Symbol(async_id_symbol)]: 910859,
  [Symbol(trigger_async_id_symbol)]: 887149,
  [Symbol(kResourceStore)]: undefined,
  [Symbol(kResourceStore)]: undefined
} 
With the reason:  Error: EMFILE: too many open files, watch
    at FSEvent.FSWatcher._handle.onchange (node:internal/fs/watchers:207:21)
    at FSEvent.callbackTrampoline (node:internal/async_hooks:130:17) {
  errno: -24,
  syscall: 'watch',
  code: 'EMFILE',
  filename: null
}
second error, exiting
Error: EMFILE: too many open files, watch
    at FSEvent.FSWatcher._handle.onchange (node:internal/fs/watchers:207:21)
    at FSEvent.callbackTrampoline (node:internal/async_hooks:130:17) {
  errno: -24,
  syscall: 'watch',
  code: 'EMFILE',
  filename: null
}