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Re: Logging temp file useage ... a little advice wouldbe appreciated


  • From: "Simon Riggs" <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
  • To: "Bill Moran" <wmoran(at)collaborativefusion(dot)com>
  • Cc: <hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
  • Subject: Re: Logging temp file useage ... a little advice wouldbe appreciated
  • Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2006 23:42:19 +0000
  • Message-id: <1167435740.3903.306.camel@silverbirch.site> <text/plain>

On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 17:53 -0500, Bill Moran wrote:
> So I've got this patch (attached, against 8.2)
> 
> The goal is to track temp file usage as an aid to server tuning (such as
> work_mem)
> 
> Most of the patch seems to work just dandy, except I'm getting weird
> sizes reported:
> 
> 2006-12-29 17:46:21 EST [45558]: [575-1] LOG:  temp file: size 140737488343776 path base/32861/pgsql_tmp/pgsql_tmp45558.554
> 
> Seems a bit odd to have a 140T file on a 130G partition ...

The fd can be set to VFD_CLOSED just above where you've patched. 

Try stat-ing the filename instead, as the unlink does.

Your patches should be diff -c format, submitted to -patches, please.

-- 
  Simon Riggs             
  EnterpriseDB   http://www.enterprisedb.com





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