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 cheers, Pádraig
