On 11/30/2011 09:32 AM, panam wrote:
> Hi Filip,
>
> Thanks for the suggestions.
> There is no indication of disk activity triggered by postgres.
> iostat reports: Cannot find disk data (maybe because the system is hosted in
> a OpenVZ environment?)
> Systemlogs (syslog and postgresql-9.1-main.log) do not indicate something
> unusual.
> All pg threads are sleeping (S state).
>
> I will try to reproduce this, this time with a smaller initial disk size...
>
Try checking where the postgres processes are waiting, too:
ps -C postgres -o wchan=
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Craig Ringer