Re: High I/O writes activity on disks causing images on browser to lag and not load

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Jennifer Trey <jennifer.trey@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hmm.. I doesn't look it made it to the mailing list. I guess you can't
>> attach a file then.
>> ----
>> Finally!
>> I did use the programs suggested by Michael, but I actually found it a
>> little before you wrote :P
>> Filtering out with the pid showed that it was the file
>> pgdata/global/pgstat.tmp
>> See the attached image. ( see this link instead
>> : http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=52e73n&s=5 )
>> The file is being written to / replaced and closed. The size of that file is
>> around 57kb which was reported earlier as well.
>> The file contains just allot of stange tokens and letters. What is used for?
>> / Jennifer
>
> What version of postgres are you running?

The reason I ask is that some early versions of 8.2 had a bug where
they updated that file all the time (too often) and it caused some
performance issues.