Hi Elijah, On Tue, 22 Oct 2019, Elijah Newren wrote: > [...] > Yes, t6043 is pretty long code-wise, and still has over five dozen > tests after ditching the separate "setup" tests -- but all of those > tests still run in 3.6s on my box. [...] $ time sh t6043-*.sh --quiet not ok 74 - 9g-check: Renamed directory that only contained immediate subdirs, immediate subdirs renamed # TODO known breakage not ok 87 - 10e-check: Does git complain about untracked file that is not really in the way? # TODO known breakage # still have 2 known breakage(s) # passed all remaining 117 test(s) 1..119 real 7m22.393s user 0m52.115s sys 3m53.212s And this is not a slow box. So yes, those extra spawned processes? They accumulate. Spawning processes is what Linux was optimized for. You're optimizing for Linux. Ciao, Dscho
