Re: PostgreSQL and FreeBSD SoftUpdates - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: PostgreSQL and FreeBSD SoftUpdates
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Msg-id 4068EC2B.7000007@familyhealth.com.au
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL and FreeBSD SoftUpdates  ("Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>)
Responses Re: PostgreSQL and FreeBSD SoftUpdates
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> Right off the top of my head, it almost sounds like a file is being held
> open after its been deleted ... we went through that with the new aspseek
> a little while back, where 170gig just disappeared overnight, but du
> showed hardly any disk space being used ...
> 
> Does restarting the database server (not rebooting, just restarting the
> postmaster) free up the disk space?

No - have to reboot.  That's probably because of softupdates though.

Chris


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