Re:Making Windows Slower Part 2: Process Creation
by brucedawson on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @12:03PM
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I do remember a coworker at another company complaining that their hard drive was filling up and it turned out the problem was the App Verifier log files. In that case the individual log files were enormous so a few dozen (hundred?) runs of the program under test was enough to be a problem. Different, but related, and perhaps more common than the problem which I hit.
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Re:Making Windows Slower Part 2: Process Creation
by pletnes on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @02:21PM
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If the log files aren’t cleaned up, you’ll hit this issue even if you don’t run it 30k times in a minute. I ran into a very similar problem with pytest (python) creating sequentially numbered temp dir/files under /tmp on linux. Result: full / partition.
Re:Making Windows Slower Part 2: Process Creation
by PSZD on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @02:49PM
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My version of this - OS (Linux) crashes due to overclock stability testing filled EFI NVRAM, and I had to manually delete the crash dumps after running into puzzling issues later on. Apparently it was possible (on some hardware, at least) for the automatic dumps to brick your computer: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=919485