Re: [platform-testers] new snapshot available: coreutils-8.27.99-3ebdc3

[Pádraig Brady]

On 30/08/17 22:14, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 30/08/17 22:05, Paul Eggert wrote:
>> Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>> I notice the new test-fts in gnulib was taking a while,
>>> and it creates 128K files/dirs on a quick look.
>>
>> It creates 65,000 directories and 4 files. On my old desktop (no flash, just 
>> hard disk, ext4, Fedora 26) it takes 17 s real time. If this is too much, I 
>> suppose we can mark the test as expensive, or remove it.
> 
> Yes that would be useful to mark as expensive
> (I didn't know one could mark gnulib tests as such)
> 
> As well as the 17s, I see:
> 
> $ mkdir t && cd t
> $ seq 65535 | xargs mkdir
> $ du -hs .
> 285M

The attached gnulib patch seems to exclude the test as coreutils
uses --with-tests with gnulib-tool

cheers,
Pádraig

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