On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 at 14:04, Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On 17/09/2020 14.06, Christian Schoenebeck wrote: > [...] > > Final question: if at some later point one large file needs to be created > > for > > some test case, is there some approximate size limit to stay below for not > > causing issues with free CI cloud services? > > FWIW, I know that 4G is already too big for some containers on Travis, > see commit 178d383f10e15f5e5a7.
Yes. Also "it's sparse" doesn't always help -- eg on OSX there is no sparse-file support so a 4GB file really does take 4GB even if it's mostly zeroes... thanks -- PMM
