Re: Disk filling, CPU filling, renegade inserts and deletes? - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Richard Plotkin
Subject Re: Disk filling, CPU filling, renegade inserts and deletes?
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Msg-id 9f04a86af210170832829941347e492b@richardplotkin.com
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In response to Re: Disk filling, CPU filling, renegade inserts and deletes?  (Richard Plotkin <richard@richardplotkin.com>)
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I also forgot to mention, vacuumdb fails on the command line now with
the following error:
vacuumdb: could not connect to database smt: FATAL:  sorry, too many
clients already

On Apr 23, 2005, at 9:57 AM, Richard Plotkin wrote:

> If anybody has additional advice on this problem, I would really,
> really appreciate it...
>
> I updated postgres to 8.0.2, am running vacuumdb -faz every 3 hours,
> and 50 minutes after a vacuum the CPU usage still skyrocketed, and the
> disk started filling.  This time, there is only a single file that is
> spanning multiple GB, but running oid2name again returns no result on
> the oid or filenode.
>
> With the increased vacuuming, fixed temp tables, etc., I really am at
> a loss for what's happening, and could really use some additional
> help.
>
> Thank you,
> Richard
>


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