Re: server disk space - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: server disk space
Date
Msg-id 20090907152017.GK8894@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to Re: server disk space  (Brian Modra <epailty@googlemail.com>)
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Brian Modra wrote:

> Great Idea, thanks, However, I notice that the postmaster seems idle,
> according to top, only 1% of the CPU at most... is it busy with IO
> maybe? Still seems strange that it sits at 0, or 1% ...
>
> Nothing else is running on the system...
>
> But when I use ps:
>
> postgres  8563 15633  0 Sep05 ?        00:05:01 postgres: tracker
> trackerData [local] VACUUM

Maybe your vacuum_cost_delay settings are too high?  What do you have
them set to?

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