That space will be recovered after the store has been shut down. So the next time you start up those blocks will be reused. Note however that you need a clean shutdown to be able to reuse that space.
As a general practice I would advice against storing large data values as properties in Neo4j. A few odd ones can be ok, but for storing a lot of large blobs it is better to store that in a We are however thinking of recycling the space for properties more aggressively in (near) future versions of Neo4j. Since the addresses for the property blocks are managed completely internally, this would be safe. Cheers, Tobias On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Rick Bullotta < [email protected]> wrote: > If I have a string property on a node, and I overwrite it with a new value, > it *appears* that the disk space for the previous value is still allocated > in the neostore.propertystore.db.strings file. I say this because the > value > happens to be rather large (about 2MB), and after a few writes, I noticed > the file grow quite large. Will this space ever be recovered? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Rick > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Neo4j mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > -- Tobias Ivarsson <[email protected]> Hacker, Neo Technology www.neotechnology.com Cellphone: +46 706 534857 _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list [email protected] https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
