Re: disk filling up

From: Bill Moran <wmoran(at)collaborativefusion(dot)com>
To: "Brandon Shalton" <brandon(at)cydataservices(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: disk filling up
Date: 2007-07-26 13:34:32
Message-ID: 20070726093432.bbb28fea.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-performance

In response to "Brandon Shalton" <brandon(at)cydataservices(dot)com>:

> Hello all,
>
> My hard disk is filling up in the /base directory to where it has consumed
> all 200gig of that drive.
>
> All the posts that i see keep saying move to a bigger drive, but at some
> point a bigger drive would just get consumed.
>
> How can i keep the disk from filling up other than get like a half TB setup
> just to hold the ./base/* folder

Are you vacuuming regularly? What is the output of vacuum verbose.

If table bloat (fixed by correctly vacuuming) is not your problem, then
you either need to implement a data expiration policy to get rid of
old data, or increase the amount of storage to accommodate the data
you want to keep.

--
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.
http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/

wmoran(at)collaborativefusion(dot)com
Phone: 412-422-3463x4023

In response to

Browse pgsql-performance by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Jignesh K. Shah 2007-07-26 14:29:51 Re: User concurrency thresholding: where do I look?
Previous Message angga erwina 2007-07-26 08:44:19 performance of postgresql in replication using slony