Re: [HACKERS] Unbounded (Possibly) Database Size Increase - Test

2002-05-10 Thread Tom Lane
Hannu Krosing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Was it not the case that lazy vacuum had problems freeing tuples that > have toasted fields ? News to me if so. regards, tom lane ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' t

Re: [HACKERS] Unbounded (Possibly) Database Size Increase - Test

2002-05-10 Thread Hannu Krosing
On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 14:21, Mark kirkwood wrote: > On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 01:45, Tom Lane wrote: > > > Which files grew exactly? (Main table, indexes, toast table, toast index?) > > Here a listing (from another run - I dumped and reloaded before getting > any of that info last time...) > > >

Re: [HACKERS] Unbounded (Possibly) Database Size Increase - Test Case

2002-05-10 Thread Tom Lane
Mark kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Was the FSM size parameter set large enough to cover the amount of space >> you need the system to be able to recycle --- viz, the amount used >> between vacuum runs? As with most everything else in PG, the default >> value is not real large: 1 pag

Re: [HACKERS] Unbounded (Possibly) Database Size Increase - Test Case

2002-05-07 Thread Tom Lane
Mark kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I ran 10 threads in 2) and saw my database grow from the initial size of > 150M by about 1G per hour (I stopped my test after 5 hours @ 4.5G). Which files grew exactly? (Main table, indexes, toast table, toast index?) Was the FSM size parameter set la

[HACKERS] Unbounded (Possibly) Database Size Increase - Test Case

2002-05-06 Thread Mark kirkwood
There has been a discussion on the general list about this area. One of the members produced a test case for demonstrating rapid size increase. I decided to see if I could induce similar behaviour with a more (seemingly) benign example. I tried this : 1) Create a table and load 10 rows (wit