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Rspec spawns many gitaly processes in a loop

    • Closed Issue created by Jacob Vosmaer @jacobvosmaer-gitlab

    This is a local testing problem I'm observing at gitlab-ce@5ea899d34f6332733bb5aee225c5f3ced340cb24.

    When I try this:

    bundle exec rspec spec/lib/gitlab/git

    I see Rspec running some tests, hitting a failure, and then starting over. There may be a maximum number of retries but from a user perspective, this is an endless loop.

    This alone is bad, but there is a bigger problem: every time Rspec starts over, it spawns a new Gitaly helper process out of tmp/tests/gitaly. These helper processes are configured to be terminated when Rspec exits with an at_exit hook. This never happens! So every time Rspec goes into the loop again, it spawns a new Gitaly. It's like a slow motion fork bomb.

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