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

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