[Python-Dev] Parallel test execution on buildbot

["Martin v. Löwis"]

> FWIW I *usually* run the test suite with parallelization (it is just so
> much quicker) and these days *rarely* see spurious failures as a result.
> This is on Mac OS X, YMMV.

I may misremember the details, but IIRC, the multiprocessing tests would
fail to terminate on Solaris. This made it unsuitable for buildbot usage.

Regards,
Martin