How to navaigate around inotify limits

[Adityav2410]

I am running my builds on Jenkins CI. I am often running into errors like:

IntrinsicError: Failed to watch filesystem for/home/jenkins/agent/workspace/.../: Error { kind: MaxFilesWatch,

I see that we can increase inotify limits as recommended here, https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/troubleshooting#no-space-left-on-device-error-while-watching-files however since i am running CI on k8, inotify limits cannot be changed in container, rather they have to be done on host. And it is not possible to do this changes on host so is there any workaround ?

In CI, do we really need to monitor files because they are not going to change anyways? Can i disable them with some config ?

[kaos]

Yes, you can disable file watching with https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/reference-global#watch_filesystem

[zopfli]

Is it possible to disable file watching while keeping pantsd enabled?
I will 'guarantee' that no file changes.