What is the system doing when I empty a large file from the trash?

I am in the process of deleting my old iPhoto library. When I installed OS X 10.10.3 it created a new Photos Library.photoslibrary and left the old iPhotos library as an archive. The old library is 249 gigabytes. I don't have "Empty Trash securely" on, and yet it is taking hours for the Finder to empty the trash with the 249 gigabyte iPhotos library in it. What is odd is that for a time, the amount of free space on my MacBook was increasing. It went from 77 GB to 88 GB, and then it started dropping all the way to 70 GB free. Now it is back up to 83.61 GB free.
What is the Finder doing when it deletes a huge file? I realize that the iPhotos Library is not a single file, but contains hundreds of folders and thousands of files. Still I find it odd that it is taking it so many hours to delete, and that the amount of free space on my Mac goes up and down and up. Can someone explain this?
It has been deleting for 4 hours and based on the "Emptying the Trash …" progress bar, it should take another two to three hours.

Yes, but why would the space available go up and down and up as the files are deleted? If the Finder is deleting the files, shouldn't the free space on the drive be steadily increasing as the Trash is emptied?

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