> Did you do a detailed du during the supposed problem and after the reboot and make a diff of those to fimd any invlolved files/dirs? du doesn't show the space in question (du -s shows the actual usage on disk, df is showing a much higher number), so I doubt this will show anything up. However, next reboot I'll certainly do that. > That said, i think you might consider posting on freebsd-[questions|stable] as well. Yes I think that might be a good plan :) Dan On 20 March 2013 12:30, Achilleas Mantzios <achill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Did you do a detailed du during the supposed problem and after the reboot > and make a diff of those > > to fimd any invlolved files/dirs? > > That said, i think you might consider posting on freebsd-[questions|stable] > as well. > > > > On Τετ 20 Μαρ 2013 11:49:07 Dan Thomas wrote: > > Hi Guys, > > We're seeing a problem with some of our FreeBSD/PostgreSQL servers "leaking" > quite significant amounts of disk space: > > > df -h /usr/local/pgsql/ > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/mfid1s1d 1.1T 772G 222G 78% /usr/local/pgsql > > > du -sh /usr/local/pgsql/ > 741G /usr/local/pgsql/ > > Stopping Postgres doesn't fix it, but rebooting does which points at the OS > rather than PG to me. However, the leak is only apparent in the dedicated > pgsql partition, and only on our database servers, so PostgreSQL seems to at > least be involved. The partition itself is a relatively standard UFS > partition: > > > > grep /usr/local/pgsql /etc/fstab > /dev/mfid1s1d /usr/local/pgsql ufs rw 2 2 > > > tunefs -p /usr/local/pgsql/ > tunefs: POSIX.1e ACLs: (-a) disabled > tunefs: NFSv4 ACLs: (-N) disabled > tunefs: MAC multilabel: (-l) disabled > tunefs: soft updates: (-n) enabled > tunefs: gjournal: (-J) disabled > tunefs: trim: (-t) disabled > tunefs: maximum blocks per file in a cylinder group: (-e) 2048 > tunefs: average file size: (-f) 16384 > tunefs: average number of files in a directory: (-s) 64 > tunefs: minimum percentage of free space: (-m) 8% > tunefs: optimization preference: (-o) time > tunefs: volume label: (-L) > > LSOF isn't showing any open files: > > > lsof +L /usr/local/pgsql/ | awk '{ print $8 }' | grep 0 | wc -l > 0 > > We're not creating filesystem snapshots: > > > find /usr/local/pgsql/ -flags snapshot > > > > Not all of our servers are leaking space, it's only the more > recently-installed systems. Here's a quick breakdown of versions: > > FreeBSD PostgreSQL Leaking? > 8.0 8.4.4 no > 8.2 9.0.4 no > 8.3 9.1.4 yes > 8.3 9.2.3 yes > 9.1 9.2.3 yes > > Each of these servers is configured with a warm standby, so we've been > switching them over to the standby to reclaim the space (rebooting the > primary is too much downtime). The standby does *not* demonstrate this > problem while it's being used as a standby, but it starts leaking space once > it's been made the primary. > > Initially I thought this might be related to WAL files, however the pg_xlog > dir is symlinked outside of the /usr/local/pgsql partition that is > demonstrating this problem: > > > ll /usr/local/pgsql/data/pg_xlog > lrwxr-xr-x 25B Oct 19 10:48 pg_xlog -> /usr/local/pglog/pg_xlog/ > > I've exhausted everything I can think of to try to solve this one. Has > anyone got any ideas on how to go about debugging this? > > Thanks, > > Dan > > > > - > > Achilleas Mantzios > > IT DEV > > IT DEPT > > Dynacom Tankers Mgmt -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general