Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ spawns azmcp server with 170k+ inotify watches, breaking dev tools

[eirikb]

When Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ is enabled, it automatically starts one or more azmcp server start processes.
Each process consumes ~170,000+ inotify watches (on my machine, when I looked). On Linux this exhausts system limits, causing unrelated dev tools (e.g., vite) to crash with:

> vite

node:internal/fs/watchers:254
    const error = new UVException({
                  ^

Error: ENOSPC: System limit for number of file watchers reached, watch ....

I found a inotify-counter-script-thing and it prints:

PID      WATCHES    INSTANCES  USER         COMMAND
1594656  177829     1          eirikb       /home/eirikb/.local/share/JetBrains/IntelliJIdea2025.2/azure-toolkit-for-intellij/azmcp/azmcp_package_Azure.Mcp.Server-0.8.3/package/dist/azmcp server start
1586008  173564     1          eirikb       /home/eirikb/.local/share/JetBrains/IntelliJIdea2025.2/azure-toolkit-for-intellij/azmcp/azmcp_package_Azure.Mcp.Server-0.8.3/package/dist/azmcp server start
1586964  172799     1          eirikb       /home/eirikb/.local/share/JetBrains/IntelliJIdea2025.2/azure-toolkit-for-intellij/azmcp/azmcp_package_Azure.Mcp.Server-0.8.3/package/dist/azmcp server start

[srnagar]

@eirikb could you please use the latest version of the plugin? This should have the latest version of azmcp which contains several perf improvements. Please let us know if this issue still exists.

[eirikb]

@eirikb could you please use the latest version of the plugin? This should have the latest version of azmcp which contains several perf improvements. Please let us know if this issue still exists.

Thanks. I have reinstalled the plugin to latest version and I will keep an eye for oddness.
I don't know what about trigger it, I have used the Azure thing a bit now and there is no strangeness in inotify so far - in fact no azmcp process at all, so I guess that's that.