Yes, I was able to get into the psql db and poke around. I see legit data there so I'm not comfortable removing any files. But, I am still concerned with what causes this to happen. At 5G a pop this could quickly fill up a partition.
On Sunday, February 17, 2019 at 12:46:17 AM UTC-6, Stephen S. wrote: > > We have a puppet server running 3.8.7 on RHEL 6.10. It experienced an OOM > event this morning then the server recovered without intervention. While > looking into this I noticed the server became very slow to respond. I saw > that it suddenly had over 3200 processes running and was about to crash. I > was able to reboot the box and it came back up fine. Everything now seems > normal except for the fact that there are about 5 files now in > /var/lib/pgsql/data/base/*/* that are eating up 1G each. These are all > timestamped with todays date and were not there until after the reboot. > Does anyone know if these files are safe to delete? I am not familar with > this particular folder or how it interacts with puppetmaster. We do not > have puppetdb installed on this system so I am not sure why it would write > to this folder. > > Files created today. > > -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 1.0G Feb 16 10:02 > /var/lib/pgsql/data/base/16385/17240.2 > -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 1.0G Feb 16 10:05 > /var/lib/pgsql/data/base/16385/17240.4 > -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 1.0G Feb 16 10:06 > /var/lib/pgsql/data/base/16385/17240.3 > rw-------. 1 postgres postgres 1.0G Feb 16 10:07 > /var/lib/pgsql/data/base/16385/17240 > -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 1.0G Feb 16 10:04 > /var/lib/pgsql/data/base/16385/17240.1 > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/f68cb873-dae7-4731-b287-332d814902d7%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
