From 1296ab9b600f5c4b329f27144e237f4c102da617 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: shortcutme <tamas@zeronet.io>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 01:34:21 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Only pre-allocate up to 5MB from big files

---
 plugins/Bigfile/BigfilePlugin.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/plugins/Bigfile/BigfilePlugin.py b/plugins/Bigfile/BigfilePlugin.py
index b4b88c37..29970836 100644
--- a/plugins/Bigfile/BigfilePlugin.py
+++ b/plugins/Bigfile/BigfilePlugin.py
@@ -389,7 +389,7 @@ class SiteStoragePlugin(object):
             os.makedirs(file_dir)
 
         f = open(file_path, 'wb')
-        f.truncate(size)
+        f.truncate(min(1024 * 1024 * 5, size))  # Only pre-allocate up to 5MB
         f.close()
         if os.name == "nt":
             startupinfo = subprocess.STARTUPINFO()