[ADMIN] excessive WAL activity

2013-06-19 Thread Sean Dillon
Just turned on WAL archiving to an S3 bucket for a small database - total size of perhaps 2-4G. After turning on achiving, we're seeing WAL logs written to S3 at the rate of about 1G every 3 minutes. That seems completely unreasonable given usage of the db. I can even see that nearly nothing

Re: [ADMIN] excessive WAL activity

2013-06-20 Thread bricklen
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Sean Dillon wrote: > Just turned on WAL archiving to an S3 bucket for a small database - total > size of perhaps 2-4G. After turning on achiving, we're seeing WAL logs > written to S3 at the rate of about 1G every 3 minutes. That seems > completely unreasonable g

Re: [ADMIN] excessive WAL activity

2013-06-21 Thread Albe Laurenz
bricklen wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Sean Dillon wrote: >> Just turned on WAL archiving to an S3 bucket for a small database - total >> size of perhaps 2-4G. >> After turning on achiving, we're seeing WAL logs written to S3 at the rate >> of about 1G every 3 >> minutes. That seems