On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 10:22:16AM +0100, Lars Schneider wrote:
> I tested different settings and found that running prove with "-j5" seems to 
> be
> the fastest option for the Travis CI machines. However, I also noticed that
> I got more test failures with higher parallelism (Dscho reported similar
> observations [1]).
> 
> Especially t0025-crlf-auto.sh failed multiple times ([2], [3]) on the OS X 
> builds
> when I increase the parallelism:
> 
> not ok 4 - text=true causes a CRLF file to be normalized
> not ok 9 - text=auto, autocrlf=true _does_ normalize CRLF files
> 
> Anyone an idea why that might be the case?

I've seen this on my personal box too[0] when running make -j4 all test.
I wasn't able to pin down why it was occurring, but if we're going to
run the tests in parallel, it's probably worth spending some time
figuring it out.

[0] Debian amd64/sid, ThinkPad X220.
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