From: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> |
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To: | Y Sidhu <ysidhu(at)gmail(dot)com> |
Cc: | pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Disk Fills Up and fsck "Compresses" it |
Date: | 2007-05-15 23:41:53 |
Message-ID: | 20070515234152.GD20707@nasby.net |
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I'm guessing you're seeing the affect of softupdates. With those enabled
it can take some time before the space freed by a delete will actually
show up as available.
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 01:18:42PM -0700, Y Sidhu wrote:
> Anyone seen PG filling up a 66 GB partition from say 40-ish percentage to
> 60-ish percentage in a manner of minutes. When I run a 'fsck' the disk usage
> comes down to 40-ish percentage. That's about 10+ GB's variance.
>
> This is a FreeBSD 6.2 RC2, 4GB memory, Xeon 3.2 GHz '4' of the '8' CPUs in
> use - dual cpu, dual core with HTT turned off in the sense that the other 4
> cpu's have been masked out. The drive is a Western Digital 70 GB SATA.
>
> --
> Yudhvir Singh Sidhu
> 408 375 3134 cell
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