On Wednesday, December 09, 2015 07:55:09 AM FattahRozzaq wrote:
> archive_mode = on
> archive_command = 'cp -i %p /home/postgres/archive/master/%f'
>
>
> The WAL archive folder is at /home/postgres/archive/master/, right?
> This directory consumes around 750GB of Disk-1.
> Each segment in the /home/postgres/archive/master/ is 16MB each
> There are currently 47443 files in this folder.
>
> If I want to limit the total size use by WAL archive to around 200-400
> GB, what value should I set for the wal_keep_segments,
> checkpoint_segments?
PostgreSQL doesn't clean up files copied by your archive_command. You need to
have a separate task clean those out. PostgreSQL's active wal_keep_segments
etc. are in the data/pg_xlog directory.
