Michael Banck wrote: > Hi, > > Do we have a precedent somewhere for how we do this, or does our test > > framework already have a way to do it? How are all the actual data > > directories etc cleaned up? > > They (and the base backups) are getting purged on success of the whole > testsuite. So to be clear - we are not leaving behind 1 GB of disk space > on success, but we use 1 GB of disk space during the test.
Yeah, but it means you force the OS to keep 1 GB of useless dung in cache. I would hope that creating 40 MB, deleting those, then creating further 40 MB (lather, rinse, repeat) would not overall evict 1 GB from my OS cache. Unless the OS keeps the unlinked files in cache, which would be stupid. -- Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/ PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
