On 1/15/25 16:55, Pádraig Brady wrote:
but then we might underestimate, and we do have usage in scripts of
(something && ulimit -v $vm && ...), so it's probably best to
leave that as is.
Looking at the bash code, it hardcodes the retries to taking about 16 seconds,
so I'm thinking our only recourse is to bail if we detect this slow case.
The attached does that, and I've verified it runs fine on Solaris 11 and Fedora
41 at least.
I totally agree: let's keep it a bit simpler if the gain is almost the same.
+1
Thanks & have a nice day,
Berny