We have a puppet server running 3.8.7 on RHEL 6.10. It experienced an OOM event this morning then the server recovered without intervention. While looking into this I noticed the server became very slow to respond. I saw that it suddenly had over 3200 processes running and was about to crash. I was able to reboot the box and it came back up fine. Everything now seems normal except for the fact that there are about 5 files now in /var/lib/pgsql/data/base/*/* that are eating up 1G each. These are all timestamped with todays date and were not there until after the reboot. Does anyone know if these files are safe to delete? I am not familar with this particular folder or how it interacts with puppetmaster. We do not have puppetdb installed on this system so I am not sure why it would write to this folder.
Files created today. -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 1.0G Feb 16 10:02 /var/lib/pgsql/data/base/16385/17240.2 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 1.0G Feb 16 10:05 /var/lib/pgsql/data/base/16385/17240.4 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 1.0G Feb 16 10:06 /var/lib/pgsql/data/base/16385/17240.3 rw-------. 1 postgres postgres 1.0G Feb 16 10:07 /var/lib/pgsql/data/base/16385/17240 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 1.0G Feb 16 10:04 /var/lib/pgsql/data/base/16385/17240.1 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/476c2298-d121-4d6f-80c2-f17e3508a956%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
