Re: URGENT: Whole DB down ("no space left on device")

From: Jeff Davis <pgsql(at)j-davis(dot)com>
To: Phoenix Kiula <phoenix(dot)kiula(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Josh Tolley <eggyknap(at)gmail(dot)com>, Zoltan Boszormenyi <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at>, Postgres General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: URGENT: Whole DB down ("no space left on device")
Date: 2007-08-31 21:40:08
Message-ID: 1188596408.6199.87.camel@dogma.ljc.laika.com
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On Fri, 2007-08-31 at 22:34 +0800, Phoenix Kiula wrote:
> On 31/08/2007, Josh Tolley <eggyknap(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > On 8/31/07, Zoltan Boszormenyi <zb(at)cybertec(dot)at> wrote:
> > > Phoenix Kiula írta:
>
> > In addition to what others have already said, when things calm down
> > you should consider implementing some sort of monitoring system that
> > is configured to start screaming before you run into problems like
> > this. At my place of work, we've set up Nagios to monitor the space
> > left on various partitions, and email us when a partition gets above
> > 90% full.
>
>
>
> Wow, Nagois seems like a superb tool. Thanks for the recommendation!
>

You might also consider OpenNMS.

Regards,
Jeff Davis

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