database size is 275GB

[TheAwiteb]

Hi, I noticed that the database size is reported as 275GB, but the actual data stored is only a few kilobytes. I understand that LMDB may pre-allocate disk space, but this discrepancy seems excessive. Could this be due to a misconfiguration?

exa and ls show me:

exa -l ~/.config/nak/events/data.mdb                                            
.rw-r--r-- 275G awiteb 19 Apr 17:46 ~/.config/nak/events/data.mdb

but du show me:

du -sh ~/.config/nak/events
8.0K	~/.config/nak/events

version: nak version 0.17.4

[fiatjaf]

No, that is intentional. This space is not really allocated. The linux kernel does some magic virtual mapping and stuff. LMDB relies on that.