Issue #19443 has been updated by byroot (Jean Boussier). Thank you Matz! I merged the caching of `Process.pid` and `$$`. The thread scheduler still call `getpid()` a lot, and I'll try to eliminate that in a follow-up (even though according to @ko1 most of that code will be replaced before 3.3). ---------------------------------------- Feature #19443: Cache `Process.pid` https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19443#change-102475 * Author: byroot (Jean Boussier) * Status: Closed * Priority: Normal ---------------------------------------- It's not uncommon for database client and similar network libraries to protect themselves from Process.fork by regularly checking Process.pid Until recently most libc would cache `getpid()` so this was a cheap check to make. However as of glibc version 2.25 the PID cache is removed and calls to `getpid()` always invoke the actual system call which significantly degrades the performance of existing applications. The reason glibc removed the cache is that some libraries were bypassing `fork(2)` by issuing system calls themselves, causing stale cache issues. That isn't a concern for Ruby as bypassing MRI's primitive for forking would render the VM unusable, so we can safely cache the PID. An example of the issue: https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/47418 Patch: https://github.com/ruby/ruby/pull/7326 -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/