Hi,
On 2014-10-20 21:03:59 +0200, jesper@krogh.cc wrote:
> One of our "production issues" is that the system generates lots of
> wal-files, lots is like 151952 files over the last 24h, which is about
> 2.4TB worth of WAL files. I wouldn't say that isn't an issue by itself,
> but the system does indeed work fine. We do subsequently gzip the files to
> limit actual disk-usage, this makes the files roughly 30-50% in size.
Have you analyzed what the source of that volume is? Which version of
postgres are you using? What's your checkpoint_timeout/segments
settings?
Greetings,
Andres Freund
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