On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Florian Weimer <fwei...@bfk.de> writes: >> * Adrian Klaver: >>>> Interesting. Is there an easy way to monitor WAL traffic in away? > >>> They are found in $DATA/pg_xlog so checking the size of that >>> directory regularly would get you the information. > >> But log files are recycled, so looking at the directory alone does not >> seem particularly helpful. > > "du" would be useless, but you could check the name of the newest WAL > segment file from time to time, and do a bit of math to see how much > WAL had been written since the previous time.
I'd think using sysstat packages sar is the way to see how much work your drives are doing. Assuming the sysstat package / daemon is set to monitor disk block activity. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
