Re: User report on git 2.55.0

["Ramkumar Ramachandra" <r@artagnon.com>]

Ben Knoble wrote:
>> Le 4 sept. 2026 à 19:13, Ramkumar Ramachandra <r@artagnon.com> a écrit :
>> 
>> Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>>> brian m. carlson wrote:
>>>> Do you maybe have some sort of security software running on your Mac?
>>> 
>>> I think it's clean, but it's still a possibility that the workplace
>>> installed something recently: I don't see any other strange symptoms
>>> with any other software though, and everything seems to working
>>> reliably? Perhaps the most common task: I run llvm tests over 30 times
>>> a day on different changes, and it never reports any spurious failures?
>>> I will nevertheless ask the IT team at my workplace if something that I
>>> can't see was installed. I don't use my personal laptop for llvm work,
>>> so doing that comparison is not possible.
>> 
>> I found the malware: it's Crowdstrike Falcon x(
>
> Hear hear. I haven’t observed issues with Git (based on next, I 
> believe) I compile and install to $HOME at work, but I think we also 
> use CrowdStrike Falcon. I’ll keep my eye out, but the scale of repos I 
> deal with on that ‘puter doesn’t come close.

I found the exact issue: Falcon is scanning every file on my machine -- since the volume of changes on the LLVM repository is very large, the high-speed internet, high-speed filesystem, high-speed compilation, and git is are are constantly racing against Falcon's slow scanning, and failing; that's why the problems are random and non-reproducible.

R.