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.
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