Re: 'make check-functional' uses lots of disk space in build tree

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 02:50:50PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> I notice that with the recent migration to check-functional we
> seem to be using a lot of disk space in the build tree: for
> one of my build trees
>  du -h build/arm-clang/tests/functional/
> returns a total of 4.5GB used, for instance, most of which seems
> to be guest binary files.
> 
> Shouldn't something be cleaning these up after a test run?

The big problem seems to be tests/functional/test_aarch64_sbsaref.py
which is creating a pair of 256 MB firmware files on every test
and not deleting them.

The tests/functional/test_arm_raspi2.py is also uncompressing some
archives and not deleting them.

Perhaps we need to define a standard "scratch dir" in the framework
that files can be put into, and then have the framework force delete
them at the end.

With regards,
Daniel
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