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From Peter Gram
Subject Re: Clearing of temp files is very slow in pg16
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In response to Clearing of temp files is very slow in pg16  (Ramakrishna Reddy Nandyala <rkreddy.n@gmail.com>)
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Hi

Are you sure that postgres uses all the memory that you have set as Huge Pages otherwise it is wasted and can not be used by anybody.
This could be 25 % of your memory that is wasted in your configuration. From the documentation It is primary shared buffers that used Huge Page.
You should start by checking how much of the Huge page memory that is allocated from Liunx by looking at /proc/meminfo for the values 1) to verify that you are using the huge page memory

1)
HugePages_Total:       
HugePages_Free:        
HugePages_Rsvd:        
HugePages_Surp:        
Hugepagesize:       


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On Mon, 4 Aug 2025 at 18:10, Ramakrishna Reddy Nandyala <rkreddy.n@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Team 

System details

We are using pg-16.8 on rhel 9.x
RAM-96GB
CPU-16

We have configured 25% RAM as shared buffers,50% as effective cache.we have configured 50% RAM for Huge page settings 

Max connection set to 2000
Work-mem -4 mb
Maintenance work mem set to 1 GB
 
Issue details 
1) we have an application that selects the data and will process in application and try to insert the data into an other table

During this process we are seeing so many temporary files been generated by the system,after some time we are seeing the application Connection is accumulating the memory at OS Level after reaching ~50%,we are getting Out Of Memory error and Kernel is killing the top memory consumer process ,here it is killing Postgres process that is doing the entire process.while automatic Postgres Service restart ,system status showing as activating and it is coming to Active state only after clearing of all the temporary files crated during the query running.The clearing of temp files are very slow such that it is causing unplanned outages to the system
 
how to fasten the Temp files removal?
How to get rid of this situation?
Any suggestions on the configuration to avoid the temp file generation 

Thanks in advance 
Ramakrishna 


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