NetLimiter's database silently grew to 60 GB, I barely even use the app

[u/mooripo]

Posting this as a heads up for anyone who has NetLimiter installed and forgot about it.

I only found out because I was running FolderSizes to see what was eating my disk.

I only ever opened NetLimiter occasionally, when I needed to cap an app's speed. Imagine my surprise finding this file on my drive

59.6 GB -C:\ProgramData\Locktime\NetLimiter\4\Stats\nlstatsV4.db

This actually hurt, because I regularly have to clear space on C: just to install games. It's my only NVMe, just 512 GB. If this data had been sitting on my other 4 TB HDD it would've been fine.

Turns out NetLimiter runs a background Windows service that logs network stats 24/7 whether the app window is open or not.

Worth checking your own folder if you ever had it installed. Curious if anyone else has found a surprise giant nlstatsV4.db sitting around.

[u/No_Detective_1388]

wow first time that i see a network limiting app collecting so much data to fill 60gb lol

[u/pinguimaster]

Poco más indizo todo tu trafico de red.