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@saimn , now it is skipping based on thread count as you suggested but the skip check has to happen at run time, not collection time. Does this look good to you? It does fix the predeps job. Other failures are unrelated (exotic archs still running when I typed this).

I really want this failure to go away so I can test other pytest 8.0rc stuff. Merging. If you disagree, feel free to open follow-up PR. Thanks!

@pllim - Looks good to me, thanks! (Indeed checking the number of threads must be done when running the test, otherwise the other threads are not alive).

BTW @saimn , chanley said the fix was necessary 17 years ago for something but he didn't have the resources to implement it also for new buffer. So, I don't think we should remove it but I am also not sure if it is worth our time to implement it for new buffer. 🤷‍♀️