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  1. Core Server
  2. SERVER-33982

Unbounded growth of pre-allocated log files on Windows

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    • Icon: Bug Bug
    • Resolution: Duplicate
    • Icon: Critical - P2 Critical - P2
    • None
    • 3.6.3
    • WiredTiger
    • None
    • Windows
      • Install Windows 2012 R2 on MongoDB 3.6.3
      • Insert 10000000 documents

    Description

      The WT log files keep accumulating forever. The restart cleans the old journal files but starts to accumulate the journal files seamlessly again.

      To avoid this issue, one can use the --wiredTigerEngineConfigString='log=(prealloc=false)' option.

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            ramon.fernandez@mongodb.com Ramon Fernandez Marina
            dmitry.agranat@mongodb.com Dmitry Agranat
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