Re: Fwd: temp_file_limit?

On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 05:57:42PM +0100, Frits Jalvingh wrote:
> @justin:
>
> Ran the query again. Top shows the following processes:
> PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+

Thanks

> root(at)chatelet:/d2/var/lib/postgresql/15/main/base# du --max=2 -mx
> ./pgsql_tmp |sort -nr
> 412021 ./pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp650830.3.fileset
> 412021 ./pgsql_tmp
> ^^^ a few seconds after this last try the query aborted:
> ERROR: temporary file size exceeds temp_file_limit (104857600kB)
>
> One possibility is that there are files in the tmpdir, which have been
> > unlinked, but are still opened, so their space hasn't been reclaimed.
> > You could check for that by running lsof -nn |grep pgsql_tmp Any deleted
> > files would say things like 'DEL|deleted|inode|no such'
>
> I do not really understand what you would like me to do, and when. The disk
> space is growing, and it is actual files under pgsql_tmp?

Run this during the query as either postgres or root:
| lsof -nn |grep pgsql_tmp |grep -E 'DEL|deleted|inode|no such'

Any files it lists would be interesting to know about.

> Hope this tells you something, please let me know if you would like more
> info, and again - thanks!

I think Thomas' idea is more likely. We'd want to know the names of
files being written, either as logged by log_temp_files or from
| find pgsql_tmp -ls
during the query.

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Justin