On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > > Right off the top of my head, it almost sounds like a file is being held > > open after its been deleted ... we went through that with the new aspseek > > a little while back, where 170gig just disappeared overnight, but du > > showed hardly any disk space being used ... > > > > Does restarting the database server (not rebooting, just restarting the > > postmaster) free up the disk space? > > No - have to reboot. That's probably because of softupdates though.
'k, *shouldn't* require a reboot ... but, what I'd try is to do what you've thought .. disable softupdates and see if you can recreate ... if killing off the process auto-reclaims the space fast, then it sounds like a stale file being held open (log file being rotated improperly?) ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])