bricklen wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Sean Dillon <s...@dillonsoftware.com> wrote: >> Just turned on WAL archiving to an S3 bucket for a small database - total >> size of perhaps 2-4G. >> After turning on achiving, we're seeing WAL logs written to S3 at the rate >> of about 1G every 3 >> minutes. That seems completely unreasonable given usage of the db. I can >> even see that nearly >> nothing is happening with this: >> >> select datname, usename, procpid, client_addr, waiting, query_start, >> current_query from >> pg_stat_activity; >> >> Nearly every time I run that, all 20 connections have current_query = >> '<IDLE>'. Does >> current_query include inserts, updates, and deletes or just select >> statements? >> >> Any ideas what to look for or how to solve this? > > Can you show the results from: > > SELECT name, current_setting(name), source > FROM pg_settings > WHERE source NOT IN ('default', 'override') > UNION ALL > SELECT 'version' as name, version(), null; > > > Perhaps there is a setting there (like archive_timeout) which could lead to > an answer. In your > $PGDATA/pg_xlog directory, look at the timestamps of the WAL segments, are > there lots of files > generated per minute?
Also, it might be good to check how much is really going on. Try log_statement=all and see how much gets logged. Yours, Laurenz Albe -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin