3 subject="""comment 2"""
4 date="2020-06-22T18:27:30Z"
6 > I also wonder if there could be some unittest added to test that annex stays "lean" (in terms of child processes) while using external remotes.
8 Normally it will only start one per thread, testremote is unique in
9 generating variants of a remote.
11 It would be good to somehow catch situations where a lot of child processes
12 get spawned in general, like the earlier -J8 starting too many
13 git helper processes. But I don't know how a test suite could detect or
16 Some of the work done for
17 [[todo/more_extensive_retries_to_mask_transient_failures]]
18 avoids potential situations where part of git-annex could leak a process
19 during exception handling. Continuing work on that will probably improve