Pain point · Performance · Blocks work
Database filecache table is huge and never shrinks after removing data
1 source thread · first seen 2017-11
Summary
A six-user instance has a 20 GB database mostly in the file cache table, which does not shrink after data removal or cleanup commands.
- Affects
- small-scale self-hosters
- Workaround
- Ran files:scan and files:cleanup without effect.
Evidence
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“My nextcloud instance (small-scale, single-server setup, 6 users) has an excessively large database size (20 GB as of today)”