Profiling vs autovacuum (was Re: [HACKERS] building 8.3beta2 w/ 'make check' consumes A LOT of disk space)

2007-11-03 Thread Tom Lane
I wrote: > However, accumulation of zillions of gmon.out files is definitely a > downside of the approach; one that I've noticed myself. I've also > noticed that it takes a heck of a long time to rm -rf $PGDATA once > you've built up a few tens of thousands of gprof subdirectories. What's > worse

Re: [HACKERS] building 8.3beta2 w/ 'make check' consumes A LOT of disk space

2007-11-03 Thread Jörg Beyer
You see, I'm not a trained developer, I'm just a dumb psychologist, sometimes poking around w/ things I don't fully understand -- learning by doing, or die trying ;-) Give me at least three years... Seriously now, I didn't even think about possible downsides of --enable-profiling, I just thought

Re: [HACKERS] building 8.3beta2 w/ 'make check' consumes A LOT of disk space

2007-11-03 Thread Tom Lane
J=?ISO-8859-1?B?9g==?=rg Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Attached is the log with the "du" output, one block for the build directory, > one for the installation directory, and one for the 8.3-cluster. Some > comments are added. > I suspect gprof to be the culprit, everything gprof related is i

Re: [HACKERS] building 8.3beta2 w/ 'make check' consumes A LOT of disk space

2007-11-03 Thread Tom Lane
J=?ISO-8859-1?B?9g==?=rg Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I generally run make check, and that consumes some extra disk space, of > course. While versions 8.1 and 8.2 were quite happy with a total of > approximately 280-300 MB of free disk space for the build, 8.3 beta 2 > consumes *up to 1.6 Gi

[HACKERS] building 8.3beta2 w/ 'make check' consumes A LOT of disk space

2007-11-03 Thread Jörg Beyer
Hello. I compiled and installed PostgreSQL 8.3 beta 2 on OS X 10.4.10 these days, and noticed a minor issue that may lead to some problems, occasionally. I generally run make check, and that consumes some extra disk space, of course. While versions 8.1 and 8.2 were quite happy with a total of ap