Why is the database of a Meteor app that has been run once (and never loaded) taking up nearly 3GB?

Question

UPDATE: this was fixed after Meteor v0.4 (2012). For historical purposes:

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Answer 1

The commands that work for me are:

1. stop mongodb instance if it is running

sudo service mongod stop

2. create new mongodb instance without requiring 3+GB preallocated space and use smallfiles.

mongod --noprealloc --smallfiles

If you are getting “ERROR: dbpath (/data/db) does not exist.” when running 2, then run these commands before 2. sudo mkdir -p /data/db/

sudo chown `id -u` /data/db