On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Jennifer Trey <jennifer.trey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hmm.. I doesn't look it made it to the mailing list. I guess you can't >> attach a file then. >> ---- >> Finally! >> I did use the programs suggested by Michael, but I actually found it a >> little before you wrote :P >> Filtering out with the pid showed that it was the file >> pgdata/global/pgstat.tmp >> See the attached image. ( see this link instead >> : http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=52e73n&s=5 ;) >> The file is being written to / replaced and closed. The size of that file is >> around 57kb which was reported earlier as well. >> The file contains just allot of stange tokens and letters. What is used for? >> / Jennifer > > What version of postgres are you running? The reason I ask is that some early versions of 8.2 had a bug where they updated that file all the time (too often) and it caused some performance issues. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
