diff --git a/sysctl.conf b/sysctl.conf
index cb1bae4..4704f9e 100644
--- a/sysctl.conf
+++ b/sysctl.conf
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Author: K4YT3X
 # Contributors: IceCodeNew
 # Date Created: October 5, 2020
-# Last Updated: October 7, 2020
+# Last Updated: October 19, 2020
 
 # Licensed under the GNU General Public License Version 3 (GNU GPL v3),
 #   available at: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt
@@ -94,6 +94,11 @@ fs.protected_regular = 2
 #   larger than this value
 fs.file-max = 9223372036854775807
 
+# increase the amount of files that can be watched
+# each file watch handle takes 1080 bytes
+# up to 540 MiB of memory will be consumed if all 524288 handles are used
+fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 524288
+
 ########## Virtualization ##########
 
 # improve mmap ASLR effectness