Trash - How long to empty?

I wasn't sure where to log this inquiry and I hope this category will work. I dumped a few old libraries that I no longer needed on my system drive. As a result there are about 280K files to delete. The system has been processing about 200 per hour. Is this a normal pace?

Thanks David Shanahan that certainly fixed the issue. It deleted the folder in about 10 minutes. It was running all night and day...until now.
Thanks again, I learned something today.

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