Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 09:34:32 -0400
From: Bill Moran <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
To: "Brandon Shalton" <brandon@cydataservices.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: disk filling up
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In response to "Brandon Shalton" <brandon@cydataservices.com>:

> Hello all,
> 
> My hard disk is filling up in the /base  directory  to where it has consumed 
> all 200gig of that drive.
> 
> All the posts that i see keep saying move to a bigger drive, but at some 
> point a bigger drive would just get consumed.
> 
> How can i keep the disk from filling up other than get like a half TB setup 
> just to hold the ./base/*  folder

Are you vacuuming regularly?  What is the output of vacuum verbose.

If table bloat (fixed by correctly vacuuming) is not your problem, then
you either need to implement a data expiration policy to get rid of
old data, or increase the amount of storage to accommodate the data
you want to keep.

-- 
Bill Moran
Collaborative Fusion Inc.
http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/

wmoran@collaborativefusion.com
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