> Hello,
>
> something wrong with the question below?
>
> I am trying to use LMDB to store large (huge) amounts of binary data which, for
> the reason of limiting memory footprint, are split into chunks. Each chunk ist
> stored under a separate key, made up of [collectionId, chunkId], so that I can
> later iterate the chunks using a LMDB cursor. Chunk size is configurable.
>
> During my tests, I encountered a strange scenario where, after inserting some
> 2000 chunks consisting of 512KB each, the database size had grown to a value
> that was roughly 135 times the calculated size of the data. I ran the stat
> utility over the db and saw that there were > 12000 overflow pages vs. approx.
> 2000 data pages. When I reduced the chunk size to 4060 bytes, the number of
> overflow pages went down to 1000, and the database size went down to the
> expected number (I experimented with different sizes, this was the best result).
> I did not find any documentation to explain this behaviour, or how to deal with
> it. Of course it makes me worry about database bloat and the consequences. Can
> anyone shed light on this?
>
> thanks,
> Christian
>