wayland: gdk error 12 "cannot allocate memory"

[Greg V]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 18:29, raichoo <raichoo at acmelabs.space> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently developing a wayland compositor and I'm running into an
> interesting issue. After a certain amount of views I cannot open any 
> more and
> GDK complains about being unable to allocate memory. Am I doing 
> something
> wrong or is this a shortcoming of the current state of wayland on 
> FreeBSD?

It's failing to allocate timerfds, which were implemented as threads + 
kernel timers.

Now there's a pure kqueue implementation in epoll-shim git master that 
fixes the problem:

https://github.com/jiixyj/epoll-shim/issues/8