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From: Mark Kirkwood <mark.kirkwood@catalyst.net.nz>
To: pgsql-performance <pgsql-performance@postgresql.org>
Subject: Re: [Slony1-general] WAL partition overloaded--by autovacuum?
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:58:35 +1200
Message-ID: <4C3441BB.5020103@catalyst.net.nz> (raw)
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On 07/07/10 13:10, Richard Yen wrote:
>
> This leads me to believe that there was a sudden flurry of write activity that occurred, and the process that would flush WAL files to /db/data/ couldn't keep up, thereby filling up the disk.  I'm wondering if anyone else out there might be able to give me some insight or comments to my assessment--is it accurate?  Any input would be helpful, and I'll try to make necessary architectural changes to keep this from happening again.
>

Do you have wal archiving enabled? (if so lets see your archive_command).

Cheers

Mark



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