Re: Too many WAL(s) despite low transaction

From: Selva manickaraja <mavles78(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Too many WAL(s) despite low transaction
Date: 2011-04-01 01:31:22
Message-ID: AANLkTi=U_2opbk3Kg223=++V9EfK5KGw-M-28Ec0dxCe@mail.gmail.com
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If our check_timeout is 30 minutes, what would be an acceptable time limit
for archive_timeout?

Also since bulk loading/migration of large amount of data was done earlier,
do I need to run vacuum etc.

I will wait for your reply.

Thank you.

Regards,

Selvam

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:

> * Selva manickaraja (mavles78(at)gmail(dot)com) wrote:
> > I'm attaching the file here. As of now it is 874 files within 3 hours.
>
> You have archive_timeout set to '5'. That means "rotate a log file
> every 5 seconds". You probably want to increase that.
>
> Thanks
>
> Stephen
>
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