On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 16:01, Irene Barg <ibarg@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 2010-07-26 11:33:33 MST system_admin metadataERROR: could not write block >> 503414 of temporary file: No space le >> ft on device >> 2010-07-26 11:33:33 MST system_admin metadataHINT: Perhaps out of disk >> space? >> -bash-3.2$ df -h >> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on >> /dev/sda3 16G 13G 1.7G 89% / >> /dev/sda8 635G 979M 601G 1% /data0 >> /dev/sda7 2.0G 241M 1.7G 13% /home >> /dev/sda5 7.8G 1.5G 5.9G 20% /u1 >> /dev/sda2 16G 184M 15G 2% /var/log >> /dev/sda1 487M 22M 440M 5% /boot >> tmpfs 12G 0 12G 0% /dev/shm >> /dev/md0 2.7T 202M 2.6T 1% /data1 > > > The pg_stat_tmp is hardly growing:: > >> -bash-3.2$ date >> Mon Jul 26 14:37:38 MST 2010 >> -bash-3.2$ pwd >> /var/lib/pgsql/data Ok so it looks like this is on your / (sda3) partition that only has 1.7G free. Its entirely possible that you have some query that needs to write more than that in tmp files. >> -bash-3.2$ du -ks pg_stat_tmp/* No surprise that is not growing, thats not for temp files, its for the stats collector. I would try turning on log_temp_files, that might help pin point the problem query. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin