On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 06:04:14PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 04 2018, SZEDER Gábor wrote: > > > The number of parallel invocations is determined by, in order of > > precedence: the number specified as '--stress=<N>', or the value of > > the GIT_TEST_STRESS_LOAD environment variable, or twice the number of > > available processors in '/proc/cpuinfo', or 8. > > With this series we have at least 3 ways to get this number. First > online_cpus() in the C code, then Peff's recent `getconf > _NPROCESSORS_ONLN` in doc-diff, and now this /proc/cpuinfo parsing. To be fair, I only added the "getconf" thing because somebody complained that I was parsing /proc/cpuinfo, and suggested it instead. ;) I don't think it's especially portable, but it should work on Linux and modern BSD/macOS, which may be enough (unlike doc-diff, I'd be a little more inclined to ask somebody on a random platform to stress test if they're hitting a bug). > Perhaps it makes sense to split online_cpus() into a helper to use from > the shellscripts instead? I think somebody proposed that in a recent thread for other reasons, too. I'd be OK with that, but probably just using getconf is reasonable in the meantime. -Peff