| From: | "Peter J(dot) Holzer" <hjp-pgsql(at)hjp(dot)at> |
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| To: | pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Orphan files filling root partition after crash |
| Date: | 2024-03-03 23:04:28 |
| Message-ID: | 20240303230428.6nvxibnhtbgq3h3q@hjp.at |
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On 2024-02-28 20:30:35 +0100, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2024, Laurenz Albe wrote:
> > On Wed, 2024-02-28 at 12:16 +0100, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:
> > > So what is the moral of the story? How to guard against this?
> >
> > Monitor disk usage ...
>
> It happened *fast*. And it was quite a big suprise coming
> from "just" a disk-full situation.
Been there.
To prevent this in the future I wrote a small script to monitor disk
space (on multiple hosts and multiple file systems) every few seconds
and invoke another script (which just terminates all database
connections - a bit drastic but effective) if free space runs low:
https://github.com/hjp/platzangst
hp
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