Re: server disk space

From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Brian Modra <epailty(at)googlemail(dot)com>
Cc: Kevin Kempter <kevink(at)consistentstate(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: server disk space
Date: 2009-09-07 15:20:17
Message-ID: 20090907152017.GK8894@alvh.no-ip.org
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Brian Modra wrote:

> Great Idea, thanks, However, I notice that the postmaster seems idle,
> according to top, only 1% of the CPU at most... is it busy with IO
> maybe? Still seems strange that it sits at 0, or 1% ...
>
> Nothing else is running on the system...
>
> But when I use ps:
>
> postgres 8563 15633 0 Sep05 ? 00:05:01 postgres: tracker
> trackerData [local] VACUUM

Maybe your vacuum_cost_delay settings are too high? What do you have
them set to?

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Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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