Piglit opens and closes a lot of files during a run, putting pressure on FreeBSD's VFS. To keep Piglit smooth, you will have to increase the default maxvnodes: sysctl kern.maxvnodes=$(($(sysctl -n kern.maxvnodes) * 2)) Instructions to use Piglit are available in: %%DOCSDIR%%/README.md The same documentation is also available online: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/piglit/tree/README