Using browser while writing from app can lead to file size growth

[realm]

Using browser while writing from app can lead to file size growth

[stel]

I wasn't able to reproduce this issue with 2.0.2, inserted 5K records – file size is 360Kb. @TimOliver if you have a chance, could you check this one more time?

[ihor]

I've just reached 30Gb until my system started to complain. Without the browser, the file size is 6.5Mb.

[bdash]

@ihor, can you share more details about what version of Realm you're using in your app and which version of the Realm Browser you're using? Can you share steps that we can follow to reproduce the problem?

[ihor]

I'm using Realm 1.10.0, Realm Browser 2.1.11 (95) and Mac OS 10.12.3.

I was importing pre-installed application data with a node script. With opened browser, the *.realm file reached 30Gb. It was 26Gb when I noticed and it was growing like 1Gb in 1-2 mins. When I closed the browser and ran the script again the file size was 6.5Mb.

I have 16 tables. 5 of them have < 200 records, and other tables have between 5,000 and 60,000 records. I don't have any relations between objects. All tables have one or two indexes.

[bdash]

I had a thought this morning that this could be caused by Realm Browser going into App Nap. That could potentially result in significant delays in the Browser seeing modifications made by other processes, resulting in old versions being pinned for a significant amount of time.