Re: URGENT: Whole DB down ("no space left on device")

From: "Phoenix Kiula" <phoenix(dot)kiula(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Josh Tolley" <eggyknap(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "Zoltan Boszormenyi" <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at>, "Postgres General" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: URGENT: Whole DB down ("no space left on device")
Date: 2007-08-31 14:34:57
Message-ID: e373d31e0708310734l2dcfaf76ia3d5323748b22f1a@mail.gmail.com
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On 31/08/2007, Josh Tolley <eggyknap(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On 8/31/07, Zoltan Boszormenyi <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at> wrote:
> > Phoenix Kiula írta:

> In addition to what others have already said, when things calm down
> you should consider implementing some sort of monitoring system that
> is configured to start screaming before you run into problems like
> this. At my place of work, we've set up Nagios to monitor the space
> left on various partitions, and email us when a partition gets above
> 90% full.

Wow, Nagois seems like a superb tool. Thanks for the recommendation!

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