merge heads
diff --git a/Makefile.pre.in b/Makefile.pre.in
index 6dd1b51..2f4ca28 100644
--- a/Makefile.pre.in
+++ b/Makefile.pre.in
@@ -230,8 +230,10 @@
TCLTK_INCLUDES= @TCLTK_INCLUDES@
TCLTK_LIBS= @TCLTK_LIBS@
-# The task to run while instrument when building the profile-opt target
-PROFILE_TASK=-m test.regrtest --pgo
+# The task to run while instrumented when building the profile-opt target.
+# We exclude unittests with -x that take a rediculious amount of time to
+# run in the instrumented training build or do not provide much value.
+PROFILE_TASK=-m test.regrtest --pgo -x test_asyncore test_gdb test_multiprocessing_fork test_multiprocessing_forkserver test_multiprocessing_main_handling test_multiprocessing_spawn test_subprocess
# report files for gcov / lcov coverage report
COVERAGE_INFO= $(abs_builddir)/coverage.info