Comment 1 for bug 158040

Confirmed here too. I spent a few hours trying to solve an issue whereby one of my development projects that uses inotify couldn't add new watches. I checked the maximum limits but couldn't find a way to get inotify to report a list of the watches so in the end gave up on it.

Like Scott I have a *lot* of directories configured in two trees (Projects/ and SourceCode)/. SourceCode has copies of the source of about a hundred packages I have debugged or inspected and in addition the complete kernel, l-u-m and l-r-m trees for Feisty, Gutsy and kernel.org.