X-Original-To: pgsql-performance-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0065B53401 for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:57:37 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 39584-04 for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 16:57:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from orthus.host4u.net (orthus.host4u.net [209.150.128.160]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35A4E533A7 for ; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:57:33 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (69-175-234-81.vnnyca.adelphia.net [69.175.234.81]) by orthus.host4u.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j3NGvQe02379; Sat, 23 Apr 2005 11:57:26 -0500 In-Reply-To: <9c5b2bf6a0f5a0bc0abeb6b6c5cf7973@richardplotkin.com> References: <6f4567d4e64297b356e2d71ec392cdae@richardplotkin.com> <4574.1114030270@sss.pgh.pa.us> <9c5b2bf6a0f5a0bc0abeb6b6c5cf7973@richardplotkin.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <2a9467bc6e6dab5d997427c4ef6158e3@richardplotkin.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Tom Lane , pgsql-performance@postgresql.org From: Richard Plotkin Subject: Re: Disk filling, CPU filling, renegade inserts and deletes? Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 09:57:20 -0700 To: Richard Plotkin X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200504/646 X-Sequence-Number: 12043 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