I'm trying to improve perforce sync performance on Linux using the --parallel option, but keep getting the error repeated once for each thread I specify:
Perforce password (P4PASSWD) invalid or unset.
If I set P4PORT, P4USER, P4PASSWD and P4CLIENT environment variables and then do a simple p4 sync, it works fine. If I use the following command I get the error message 4 times (once for each thread):
p4 sync --parallel "threads=4,min=1,minsize=1"
If I specify the password as a global on the command line, I get the same:
p4 -P passwd sync --parallel "threads=4,min=1,minsize=1"
If I get the ticket first using p4 login -p and substitute that for the password in the sync command I get the same.