Re: [GENERAL] checkpoint write errors ( getting worse )

2016-10-24 Thread CS DBA
Understood, thanks. This is a new server fired up for our client by Rackspace Not real impressed so far, for the first several days we had major performance issues even thought new new HW had more memory and more/faster CPU's and faster IO - turned out rackspace had turned on cpu throttling l

Re: [GENERAL] checkpoint write errors ( getting worse )

2016-10-23 Thread Michael Paquier
On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 12:45 PM, CS DBA wrote: > would a dump/restore correct these issues? Not directly, but it would give a logical representation of your data, or a good start image that you could deploy on a server that has less problems. You seem to be facing advanced issues with your hardw

Re: [GENERAL] checkpoint write errors ( getting worse )

2016-10-22 Thread CS DBA
also, any thoughts on what could be causing these issues? On 10/22/2016 05:59 PM, Tom Lane wrote: CS DBA writes: So I ran REINDEX on all the db's and the errors went away for a bit. Now I'm seeing this: Log entries like this:FATAL: could not read block 0 of relation base/1311892067/2687: rea

Re: [GENERAL] checkpoint write errors ( getting worse )

2016-10-22 Thread CS DBA
would a dump/restore correct these issues? On 10/22/2016 05:59 PM, Tom Lane wrote: CS DBA writes: So I ran REINDEX on all the db's and the errors went away for a bit. Now I'm seeing this: Log entries like this:FATAL: could not read block 0 of relation base/1311892067/2687: read only 0 of 81

Re: [GENERAL] checkpoint write errors ( getting worse )

2016-10-22 Thread Tom Lane
CS DBA writes: > So I ran REINDEX on all the db's and the errors went away for a bit. Now > I'm seeing this: > Log entries like this:FATAL: could not read block 0 of relation > base/1311892067/2687: read only 0 of 8192 bytes You have a problem there, because: regression=# select 2687::regcla

Re: [GENERAL] checkpoint write errors ( getting worse )

2016-10-22 Thread CS DBA
So I ran REINDEX on all the db's and the errors went away for a bit. Now I'm seeing this: Log entries like this:FATAL: could not read block 0 of relation base/1311892067/2687: read only 0 of 8192 bytes So I checked which db it is: $ psql -h localhost psql (8.4.20) Type "help" for help. p

Re: [GENERAL] checkpoint write errors

2016-10-22 Thread CS DBA
Thanks the REINDEX fixed it, it's a client of ours and we're pushing to get them to move to 9.5 On 10/21/2016 06:33 PM, Tom Lane wrote: CS DBA writes: we're seeing the below errors over and over in the logs of one of our postgres databases. Version 8.4.22 [ you really oughta get off 8.4, b

Re: [GENERAL] checkpoint write errors

2016-10-21 Thread Tom Lane
CS DBA writes: > we're seeing the below errors over and over in the logs of one of our > postgres databases. Version 8.4.22 [ you really oughta get off 8.4, but you knew that right? ] > Anyone have any thoughts on correcting/debugging it? > ERROR: xlog flush request 2571/9C141530 is not satis

[GENERAL] checkpoint write errors

2016-10-21 Thread CS DBA
Hi all; we're seeing the below errors over and over in the logs of one of our postgres databases. Version 8.4.22 Anyone have any thoughts on correcting/debugging it? Maybe I need to run a REINDEX on whatever table equates to "base/1029860192/1029863651"? If so how do I determine the db and