Re: check point segments leakage ?

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: check point segments leakage ?
Date: 2004-07-20 22:32:50
Message-ID: 40FD9D92.1000101@commandprompt.com
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Hello,

Perhaps you have an open transaction that isn't closing and thus the
pg_xlog continues to grow?

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

Gaetano Mendola wrote:
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> Hi all,
> today I add 4 new columns to a table with 4E+06 rows,
> I also update to an initial value these new columns.
>
> The new columns are 3 INTEGER one of type DOUBLE.
> The table have also 5 indexes.
>
> Immediately after the operation my partition "data" had
> an usage increment of 1.2GB.
> I did a reindex and a vacuum full on that table and 600MB
> were freed.
>
> Now I have an increment of only 600 MB.
>
> I use a checkpoint_segments = 16 but in my pg_xlog I have
> 35 files. Why 35 files ?
>
> Where are lost my 600MB ?
>
> Also the load increased from 1 to 5 !!
> Any ideas ?
>
> I'm attaching boot graphs ( HD space usage and load ).
>
> Regards
> Gaetano Mendola
>
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