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Re: stats collector suddenly causing lots of IO

From: Alvaro Herrera
Subject: Re: stats collector suddenly causing lots of IO
Date: ,
Msg-id: 20100413215522.GI2990@alvh.no-ip.org
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In response to: stats collector suddenly causing lots of IO  (Chris)
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stats collector suddenly causing lots of IO  (Chris, )
 Re: stats collector suddenly causing lots of IO  (Cédric Villemain, )
 Re: stats collector suddenly causing lots of IO  (Alvaro Herrera, )
 Re: stats collector suddenly causing lots of IO  (Tom Lane, )
 Re: stats collector suddenly causing lots of IO  (Josh Kupershmidt, )
  Re: stats collector suddenly causing lots of IO  (Tom Lane, )
   Re: stats collector suddenly causing lots of IO  (Josh Kupershmidt, )
    Re: stats collector suddenly causing lots of IO  (Tom Lane, )
     Re: stats collector suddenly causing lots of IO  (Josh Kupershmidt, )
      Re: stats collector suddenly causing lots of IO  (Tom Lane, )
       Re: stats collector suddenly causing lots of IO  (Scott Carey, )
        Re: stats collector suddenly causing lots of IO  (Scott Carey, )
       Re: stats collector suddenly causing lots of IO  (Josh Kupershmidt, )
        Re: stats collector suddenly causing lots of IO  (Greg Smith, )
         Re: stats collector suddenly causing lots of IO  (Josh Kupershmidt, )
          Re: stats collector suddenly causing lots of IO  (Greg Smith, )
          Re: stats collector suddenly causing lots of IO  (Tom Lane, )
           Re: stats collector suddenly causing lots of IO  (Josh Kupershmidt, )
 Re: stats collector suddenly causing lots of IO  (Tom Lane, )
 Re: stats collector suddenly causing lots of IO  (Tom Lane, )
  Re: stats collector suddenly causing lots of IO  (Tom Lane, ) 
Chris wrote:
> I have a lot of centos servers which are running postgres.  Postgres isn't used
> that heavily on any of them, but lately, the stats collector process keeps
> causing tons of IO load.  It seems to happen only on servers with centos 5.

Does this correlate to an increase in size of the pgstat.stat file?
Maybe you could try resetting stats, so that the file goes back to an
initial size and is slowly repopulated.  I'd suggest monitoring the size
of the stats file, just in case there's something abnormal with it.

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