Re: Postgres slow after a couple of days - Mailing list pgsql-general

Edwin Pauli wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A few days ago i've installed PostgreSQL 7.4.1
> After the installation, Postgres was very fast.
> But now, a few days later, it getting slower and slower.
>
> I've looked in the data-dir and i was confused when i see the big
> size from that directory.

How often do you run VACUUM?

>
> A dump (created with pg_dump) is about 1MB.
>
> pauli# cd /usr/local/pgsql/data
> epauli# du -h
> 4.4M    ./base/1
> 4.4M    ./base/17141
>  19M    ./base/17142
> 4.4M    ./base/17143
> 4.4M    ./base/17149
> 4.4M    ./base/17158
> 4.5M    ./base/29156
> 4.4M    ./base/29175
> 4.5M    ./base/29184
>  55M    ./base
> 160K    ./global
>  32M    ./pg_xlog
>  98K    ./pg_clog
>  87M    .
>
>
> Does anybody know why this directory is 87MB while the database is
> 1MB?
>
>


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