Large Gb tsm files from small Kb data

[Anaisdg]

Hello @Cyrus_Jomo,
I’m really not sure, but this thread might point to something (like maybe you’re creating a lot of series in InfluxDB with a poor schema design or some of the final points in the last post of this thread):

Data Size Questions - influx much bigger than raw data

Hello @Anaisdg , yes, my csv files have timestamps. I do collect some more data from telegraph but I inject them into another (influx)database, and this db is absolutely fine. Only the CSV_DB is growing like crazy. So I would guess the same as you said with the cache or the temporary files. I had a look to the file structure of influx, and in data/CSV_DB/autogen/number/, I can see A LOT of ‘.tmp’ folders. And this is inside each number folder similar. Here a pic: [hddata_fs] Each .tmp fold…

I’ll try to get some help on this as well.