throws EMFILE on huge directories

[max-mapper]

pizzacats:viewkit maxogden$ filewatcherthing . make

fs.js:837
    throw errnoException(errno, 'watch');
          ^
Error: watch EMFILE
    at errnoException (fs.js:806:11)
    at FSWatcher.start (fs.js:837:11)
    at Object.fs.watch (fs.js:861:11)
    at watch (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/filewatcherthing/filewatcherthing.js:33:6)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/filewatcherthing/filewatcherthing.js:40:7
    at Array.forEach (native)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/filewatcherthing/filewatcherthing.js:39:8
    at Object.oncomplete (fs.js:297:15)

[max-mapper]

and by huge I mean modestly big

[evocateur]

I hit this too, on a directory tree containing ~20k files (though on OS X, by default, it need only be more than 256 files total). This is basically nodejs/node-v0.x-archive#2479 all over again. :(