From: Volker Schlecht <openbsd-ports@schlecht.dev>
Subject: Re: [Update] wayland/niri 26.04
To: yaydn@protonmail.com, "ports@openbsd.org" <ports@openbsd.org>
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2026 12:43:45 +0200

On 7/5/26 12:10 PM, yaydn@protonmail.com wrote:

> thread '<unnamed>' (554026) panicked at src/tests/client.rs:162:47:
> called `Result::unwrap()` on an `Err` value: IoError(Os { code: 24, kind: Uncategorized, message: "Too many open files" })
[...]
> // Checks had no problems. Not sure about the tests but it runs on
> // the i5-3340M laptop smoothly?

You may want to play with the kern.maxfiles sysctl and login.conf "openfiles":
OpenBSD's defaults are typically too conservative for file-watching utilities.

See for example the README of devel/libinotify