MongoDB Capped Collection Maximum allowable size

Question

I'm using a mongodb capped collection which is tailable. I want to set the size of it to a maximum value as I don't want to really have the oldest records removed according to the FIFO rule.

I want the data to pesist for as long as possible whilst keeping the features of a capped collection.

Thanks

Answer 1

You can make the capped collection as big as you want; just set the size parameter of create_collection to a value big enough to not run out of space.

Like this:

 db.create_collection('captest', capped=True, size=20000000000)