No, no encryption in this case. Given that Rob Vesse has also seen it and that
people on Windows have expressed concern about the enormous amount of data the
tests create, I think it's worth trying to "clean as we go". Since Macs don't
suffer from the problems deleting mapped files that Windows machines do, it
should be doable. {famous last words}
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A. Soroka
The University of Virginia Library
> On Jun 6, 2016, at 6:31 AM, Stian Soiland-Reyes <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 6 June 2016 at 10:03, Rob Vesse <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I’ve always seen this issue running on mac , these days it is not an issue
>> for me because I got a new machine with more disk space
>>
>> It did always seem like there was a delay between the test deleting folder
>> and the disk space actually being freed up. I did on one occasion try
>> inserting a sleep before each test which made things better but drastically
>> increased the time to run the tests.
>
> Could this be related to encryption of home directory? In my
> experience that could add a noticeable delay before disk space is
> freed up.
>
> Is it possible to safely re-use a previously malloc-ed test-file, or
> would that introduce lots of other issues? (It sounds non-ideal, each
> tests should run independently from a clean state). What about
> truncating the file before it's deleted?
>
>
>
> --
> Stian Soiland-Reyes
> Apache Taverna (incubating), Apache Commons
> http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9842-9718
