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From: Richard Plotkin <richard@richardplotkin.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Disk filling, CPU filling, renegade inserts and
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 13:05:27 -0700
Message-ID: <fac30fdc69bbcd15c385f05b959e758e@richardplotkin.com> (raw)
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	<1114025818.66326.34.camel@home>

No, I don't think so. I don't think there are any temp table queries 
(and I'll check), but even if there are, site traffic is very low, and 
queries would be very infrequent.

On Apr 20, 2005, at 12:36 PM, Rod Taylor wrote:

>> I'm having a pretty serious problem with postgresql's performance.
>> Currently, I have a cron task that is set to restart and vacuumdb -faz
>> every six hours.  If that doesn't happen, the disk goes from 10% full
>> to 95% full within 2 days (and it's a 90GB disk...with the database
>> being a 2MB download after dump), and the CPU goes from running at
>> around a 2% load to a 99+% load right away (the stats look like a
>> square wave).
>
> Are you running frequent queries which use temporary tables?
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