The disk image calculator was using find + exec forking du for every file in the disk image, making it very slow. Change du to accept files, nul delimeted on stdin to speed it back up. Before change: nix-build nixos/tests/image-contents.nix 9.71s user 1.06s system 8% cpu 2:13.11 total After change: nix-build nixos/tests/image-contents.nix 9.93s user 1.23s system 21% cpu 51.601 total
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