Re: [ADMIN] server disk space

2009-09-07 Thread Alvaro Herrera
Brian Modra wrote: > Great Idea, thanks, However, I notice that the postmaster seems idle, > according to top, only 1% of the CPU at most... is it busy with IO > maybe? Still seems strange that it sits at 0, or 1% ... > > Nothing else is running on the system... > > But when I use ps: > > postg

Re: [ADMIN] server disk space

2009-09-06 Thread Brian Modra
2009/9/6 Kevin Kempter : > On Sunday 06 September 2009 10:28:30 you wrote: >> Thanks, I suspected that was the case. However, the plain vacuum on >> the largest table has been running for almost 24 hours now, despite >> the postgresql being idle (no rows being inserted or updated for 24 >> hours).

Re: [ADMIN] server disk space

2009-09-06 Thread Kevin Kempter
On Sunday 06 September 2009 10:28:30 you wrote: > Thanks, I suspected that was the case. However, the plain vacuum on > the largest table has been running for almost 24 hours now, despite > the postgresql being idle (no rows being inserted or updated for 24 > hours). The vacuum full will probably t

Re: [ADMIN] server disk space

2009-09-06 Thread Kevin Kempter
On Sunday 06 September 2009 00:05:04 Brian Modra wrote: > Hi, > I'm maintaining a fairly large online database, and am trying to free > up disk space. Its got to 98% full. > I am certain that the postgresql data files are responsible for more > than 97% of this partition's usage. > The WAL logs for