From: Dan Fandrich Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 18:15:35 +0000 (-0700) Subject: runtests.md: Suggest a value for -j for torture tests X-Git-Tag: curl-8_11_0~408 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=33472dbc1b9f4afd05428505ff49130e2680981b;p=thirdparty%2Fcurl.git runtests.md: Suggest a value for -j for torture tests --- diff --git a/tests/runtests.md b/tests/runtests.md index bfffc5818a..1e8c7f74ee 100644 --- a/tests/runtests.md +++ b/tests/runtests.md @@ -150,10 +150,10 @@ Displays a help text about this program's command line options. Spawn the given number of processes to run tests in. This defaults to 0 to run tests serially within a single process. Using a number greater than one allows multiple tests to run in parallel, speeding up a test run. The optimum number -is dependent on the system and set of tests to run, but 7 times number of CPU -cores is a good figure to start with, or 1.3 times number of CPU cores if -Valgrind is in use. Enabling parallel tests is not recommended in conjunction -with the -g option. +is dependent on the system and set of tests to run, but 7 times the number of +CPU cores is a good figure to start with, or 1.3 times if Valgrind is in use, +or 5 times for torture tests. Enabling parallel tests is not recommended in +conjunction with the -g option. ## `-k`