--On Tuesday, November 13, 2012 4:25 PM -0800 Howard Chu <hyc(a)symas.com>
wrote:
> I found that OSX acts different -- It actually allocates the
entire size
> of the database on disk, regardless of how much is used. That may be
> common to all the BSDs.
Sounds like whatever filesystem is default on BSDish systems doesn't
support sparse files.
Anyway, you can use mdb_stat to see what's in the MDB environment.
Oh, one additional note about the BSDs... I didn't see that behavior until
I enabled writemap. Disabling writemap reverted it to the same behavior as
linux, but then of course the advantage of writemap is lost. :P
--Quanah
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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
Zimbra, Inc
A Division of VMware, Inc.
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