# New Ticket Created by Jarkko Hietaniemi # Please include the string: [perl #133067] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=133067 > On 2/14/18 17:45, James E Keenan wrote: > When you run 'make test_harness' often enough, you quickly become aware > that, despite setting $TEST_JOBS to an appropriate value, certain test > files are slow and block the forward movement of the harness. The first > such file I notice is t/io/openpid.t, which contains two commands which > each sleep for 30 seconds. > > The amount of 'sleep' requested has been unchanged since commit c8fc8fb0 > in 2003. Do we still need to sleep so much? If not, please review I fully admit that I have no recollection of the reasoning 15 years later. > patch attached. > > Thank you very much. > Jim Keenan >