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* Clearing of temp files is very slow in pg16
@ 2025-08-04 16:09 Ramakrishna Reddy Nandyala <[email protected]>
  2025-08-04 19:23 ` Re: Clearing of temp files is very slow in pg16 Peter Gram <[email protected]>
  2025-08-05 01:13 ` Re: Clearing of temp files is very slow in pg16 DINESH  NAIR <[email protected]>
  2025-08-18 21:21 ` RE: Clearing of temp files is very slow in pg16 [email protected]
  0 siblings, 3 replies; 4+ messages in thread

From: Ramakrishna Reddy Nandyala @ 2025-08-04 16:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: [email protected]

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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* Re: Clearing of temp files is very slow in pg16
  2025-08-04 16:09 Clearing of temp files is very slow in pg16 Ramakrishna Reddy Nandyala <[email protected]>
@ 2025-08-04 19:23 ` Peter Gram <[email protected]>
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From: Peter Gram @ 2025-08-04 19:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ramakrishna Reddy Nandyala <[email protected]>; +Cc: [email protected]

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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.


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* Re: Clearing of temp files is very slow in pg16
  2025-08-04 16:09 Clearing of temp files is very slow in pg16 Ramakrishna Reddy Nandyala <[email protected]>
@ 2025-08-05 01:13 ` DINESH  NAIR <[email protected]>
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From: DINESH  NAIR @ 2025-08-05 01:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Ramakrishna Reddy Nandyala <[email protected]>; [email protected] <[email protected]>



Hi ,


  1.
Try increasing work_mem from 4MB.
  2.
optimize Temp_file_limit
  3.
Check the queries which are causing memory intensive and try to optimize them using pg_stat_statements
  4.
Add swap space




Thanks


Dinesh Nair


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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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* RE: Clearing of temp files is very slow in pg16
  2025-08-04 16:09 Clearing of temp files is very slow in pg16 Ramakrishna Reddy Nandyala <[email protected]>
@ 2025-08-18 21:21 ` [email protected]
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread

From: [email protected] @ 2025-08-18 21:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 'Ramakrishna Reddy Nandyala' <[email protected]>; [email protected]

Hi

 

You said : “We have configured 25% RAM as shared buffers,50% as effective cache.we have configured 50% RAM for Huge page settings”

So I can say that you are wasting about 25% of your RAM!

 

Apart from shared buffers (and dynamic shared memory), no other memory areas in PostgreSQL use huge pages.

 

Regards 

 

Michel SALAIS

De : Ramakrishna Reddy Nandyala <[email protected]> 
Envoyé : lundi 4 août 2025 18:10
À : [email protected]
Objet : Clearing of temp files is very slow in pg16

 

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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