diff --git a/internal/lsp/watcher/global_watcher.go b/internal/lsp/watcher/global_watcher.go
index 7045cb04837b2fc33b0696c089f12adc220db587..5a546a7db45ffa006a97d9ba98d8816665a6efa1 100644
--- a/internal/lsp/watcher/global_watcher.go
+++ b/internal/lsp/watcher/global_watcher.go
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ func Start() error {
 		// Check if the error might be due to file descriptor limits
 		if isFileLimitError(err) {
 			slog.Warn("lsp watcher: Hit file descriptor limit, attempting to increase", "error", err)
-			if newLimit, rlimitErr := MaximizeOpenFileLimit(); rlimitErr == nil {
+			if newLimit, rlimitErr := maximizeOpenFileLimit(); rlimitErr == nil {
 				slog.Info("lsp watcher: Increased file descriptor limit", "limit", newLimit)
 				// Retry the watch operation
 				if err = notify.Watch(watchPath, gw.events, events); err == nil {
diff --git a/internal/lsp/watcher/rlimit_stub.go b/internal/lsp/watcher/rlimit_stub.go
index e60cf27d80bae21fe326f2b584dd32aac03130d4..9e39467f21bf602c73fd124f799139e4b6cafc09 100644
--- a/internal/lsp/watcher/rlimit_stub.go
+++ b/internal/lsp/watcher/rlimit_stub.go
@@ -2,11 +2,11 @@
 
 package watcher
 
-// MaximizeOpenFileLimit is a no-op on non-Unix systems.
+// maximizeOpenFileLimit is a no-op on non-Unix systems.
 // Returns a high value to indicate no practical limit.
-func MaximizeOpenFileLimit() (int, error) {
+func maximizeOpenFileLimit() (int, error) {
 	// Windows and other non-Unix systems don't have file descriptor limits
 	// in the same way Unix systems do. Return a very high value to indicate
 	// there's no practical limit to worry about.
 	return 10000000, nil // 10M handles - way more than any process would use
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/internal/lsp/watcher/rlimit_unix.go b/internal/lsp/watcher/rlimit_unix.go
index 29f99c4fdba2870ea5e8f8e68273e99c4e98e3de..298f3d5b3004a032f0ce5cc592ed30e954fef3f9 100644
--- a/internal/lsp/watcher/rlimit_unix.go
+++ b/internal/lsp/watcher/rlimit_unix.go
@@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ const (
 	darwinOpenMax = 10240
 )
 
-// MaximizeOpenFileLimit tries to set the resource limit RLIMIT_NOFILE (number
+// maximizeOpenFileLimit tries to set the resource limit RLIMIT_NOFILE (number
 // of open file descriptors) to the max (hard limit), if the current (soft
 // limit) is below the max. Returns the new (though possibly unchanged) limit,
 // or an error if it could not be changed.
-func MaximizeOpenFileLimit() (int, error) {
+func maximizeOpenFileLimit() (int, error) {
 	// Get the current limit on number of open files.
 	var lim syscall.Rlimit
 	if err := syscall.Getrlimit(syscall.RLIMIT_NOFILE, &lim); err != nil {