On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 6:32 PM, panam <panam(at)gmx(dot)net> 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...
Have you tried doing something like stopping postgres and rebooting
the server in case there's some volume info that didn't get updated
when you grew the partition bigger?