Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:09:54 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <matthew@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: mckusick@mckusick.com Subject: Re: "Leaking" disk space Message-ID: <5149DF52.5040804@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <CAG8duQ1cjVWbWDUBEoEH6uLEWkU5mqgs%2BnHjDGuvPMvpW8qLSQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAG8duQ1cjVWbWDUBEoEH6uLEWkU5mqgs%2BnHjDGuvPMvpW8qLSQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 20/03/2013 15:23, Dan Thomas wrote: > Hi Guys, > > We're seeing a problem with some of our FreeBSD/PostgreSQL servers > "leaking" quite significant amounts of disk space: > > > df -h /usr/local/pgsql/ > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/mfid1s1d 1.1T 772G 222G 78% /usr/local/pgsql > > > du -sh /usr/local/pgsql/ > 741G /usr/local/pgsql/ > > Stopping Postgres doesn't fix it, but rebooting does which points at > the OS rather than PG to me. However, the leak is only apparent in the > dedicated pgsql partition, and only on our database servers, so > PostgreSQL seems to at least be involved. The partition itself is a > relatively standard UFS partition: Hi, Dan You're not the first person to report that. Please see the thread: "leaking lots of unreferenced inodes (pg_xlog files?), maybe after moving tables and indexes to tablespace on different volume" on the freebsd-fs@freebsd.org mailing list. Kirk McKusick was investigating the original report: CC'd. Cheers, Matthew
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