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+# extractloop.bash results
+
+What the extractloop stress test does is (top comment in `extractloop.bash`):
+
+```
+# Mount a gocryptfs filesystem somewhere on /tmp, then run two parallel
+# infinite loops inside that do the following:
+# 1) Extract linux-3.0.tar.gz
+# 2) Verify the md5sums
+# 3) Delete, go to (1)
+#
+# This test is good at discovering inode-related memory leaks because it creates
+# huge numbers of files.
+```
+
+Memory usage stabilises at 119MiB, we do not run of fds,
+and the interation time is stable at 37 seconds. The test
+runs slower in the beginning due to xfstests running in
+parallel on the test machine.
+
+Test output (somewhat trimmed for brevity):
+
+```
+0 jakob@brikett:~/go/src/github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/tests/stress_tests$ date
+Sun Jan 21 19:48:34 CET 2018
+0 jakob@brikett:~/go/src/github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/tests/stress_tests$ gocryptfs -version
+gocryptfs v1.4.2-71-gf63ce35; go-fuse v20170619-24-g3d30ad6; 2018-01-20 go1.9.2
+0 jakob@brikett:~/go/src/github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/tests/stress_tests$ ./extractloop.bash 
+Testing gocryptfs
+Test dir: /tmp/extractloop.bash.yp3
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+^C2018/01/21 12:00:43 Unimplemented opcode INTERRUPT
+
+130 jakob@brikett:~/go/src/github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/tests/stress_tests$
+```
diff --git a/tests/stress_tests/extractloop.bash b/tests/stress_tests/extractloop.bash
index 18fc4ef..5a3aa1b 100755
--- a/tests/stress_tests/extractloop.bash
+++ b/tests/stress_tests/extractloop.bash
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 #
 # This test is good at discovering inode-related memory leaks because it creates
 # huge numbers of files.
+#
+# See Documentation/extractloop.md for example output.
 
 set -eu