tail: inotify cannot be used, reverting to polling

Getting this error when I use the tail command:

tail: inotify cannot be used, reverting to polling

The solution that I found is to increase the limit set within the file at /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances; this must be done as root:

shell#  cat /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances

128

shell# echo "256"> /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances

shell# cat /proc/sys/fs/inotify/max_user_instances
256