Re: [GENERAL] Regular disk activity of an idle DBMS

2011-05-31 Thread andrej
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Re: [GENERAL] Regular disk activity of an idle DBMS

2011-05-30 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Andrej Podzimek wrote: > Nothing changes there. When OpenFire, Courier-MTA and Apache are restarted, > a few numbers change, but othrewise they remain unchanged pretty long. There > is no obvious activity that could trigger a disk write 20 times a minute... How

Re: [GENERAL] Regular disk activity of an idle DBMS

2011-05-30 Thread Andrej Podzimek
Nothing changes there. When OpenFire, Courier-MTA and Apache are restarted, a few numbers change, but othrewise they remain unchanged pretty long. There is no obvious activity that could trigger a disk write 20 times a minute... How many databases are in your pg cluster? There are currently 19

Re: [GENERAL] Regular disk activity of an idle DBMS

2011-05-29 Thread Greg Smith
On 05/29/2011 02:42 PM, Andrej Podzimek wrote: I identified the most active process, at least twenty times more active than any other process on the system: postgres 3086 0.1 0.0 34688 2584 ?Ss 03:11 1:16 postgres: stats collector process So it's the statistics collector

Re: [GENERAL] Regular disk activity of an idle DBMS

2011-05-29 Thread Andrej Podzimek
Hello, after configuring a new home server with PostgreSQL 9.0.4, I observe some regular disk activity, even though the server is completely idle (disconnected from the network, no users but one logged in). There are very short write bursts once in about 3 seconds. There are a couple of thi

Re: [GENERAL] Regular disk activity of an idle DBMS

2011-05-28 Thread Greg Smith
On 05/28/2011 11:02 AM, Andrej Podzimek wrote: after configuring a new home server with PostgreSQL 9.0.4, I observe some regular disk activity, even though the server is completely idle (disconnected from the network, no users but one logged in). There are very short write bursts once in about