Ah yes. You have to tell it how big the database might eventually become ... a max size... when you create it.   If you don't have that much space it would fail. 

 it doesn't fail on linux-amd64 though. But it fails in other platforms. 

 Has something to do with sparse file support I'm guessing. 

 Anyway, the problem  @𝓢𝓮𝓻 𝓢𝓵𝓮𝓮𝓹𝔂 is getting is quite different, from his other posts. It seems he has problems with the C compiler:

nostr:note1yekq0lmw8fjkdtee6s3appxzwqn7vaqrr2xyk007twneeyt6rp7syj7vv9 

 We use 24GB.  I could make a launch option to set it smaller I suppose.