Re: [PERFORM] disk space usage unexpected

2010-02-17 Thread Ben Chobot
On Feb 15, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Rose Zhou wrote: Thanks Ben: I will adjust the auto vacuum parameters. It is on now, maybe not frequently enough. How to get the disk space back to OS? Will a Vacuum Full Verbose get the disk space back to OS? Yes, but it might bloat your indexes. Do

Re: [PERFORM] disk space usage unexpected

2010-02-17 Thread Rose Zhou
: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] disk space usage unexpected On Feb 15, 2010, at 1:25 PM, Rose Zhou wrote: Thanks Ben: I will adjust the auto vacuum parameters. It is on now, maybe not frequently enough. How to get the disk space back to OS? Will a Vacuum Full Verbose get

[PERFORM] disk space usage unexpected

2010-02-15 Thread Rose Zhou
Good day, I have a PostgreSQL 8.4 database installed on WinXP x64 with very heavy writing and updating on a partitioned table. Sometimes within one minute, there are tens of file with size=1,048,576kb (such as filenode.1,filenode.2,...filenode.43) created in the database subdirectory within

Re: [PERFORM] disk space usage unexpected

2010-02-15 Thread Ben Chobot
On Feb 15, 2010, at 11:59 AM, Rose Zhou wrote: Good day, I have a PostgreSQL 8.4 database installed on WinXP x64 with very heavy writing and updating on a partitioned table. Sometimes within one minute, there are tens of file with size=1,048,576kb (such as

Re: [PERFORM] disk space usage unexpected

2010-02-15 Thread Rose Zhou
: 15 February 2010 16:16 To: Rose Zhou Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [PERFORM] disk space usage unexpected On Feb 15, 2010, at 11:59 AM, Rose Zhou wrote: Good day, I have a PostgreSQL 8.4 database installed on WinXP x64 with very heavy writing and updating on a partitioned

Re: [PERFORM] disk space usage unexpected

2010-02-15 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 14:59 -0500, Rose Zhou wrote: Good day, I have a PostgreSQL 8.4 database installed on WinXP x64 with very heavy writing and updating on a partitioned table. Sometimes within one minute, there are tens of file with size=1,048,576kb (such as