Re: Archiver not picking up changes to archive_command

Sorry, version: PostgreSQL 8.4.2 on x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, compiled
by GCC gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20071124 (Red Hat 4.1.2-42), 64-bit


On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:01 PM, bricklen <bricklen@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm stumped by an issue we are experiencing at the moment. We have
> been successfully archiving logs to two standby sites for many months
> now using the following command:
>
> rsync -a %p postgres@192.168.80.174:/WAL_Archive/ && rsync
> --bwlimit=1250 -az %p postgres@14.121.70.98:/WAL_Archive/
>
> Due to some heavy processing today, we have been falling behind on
> shipping log files (by about a 1000 logs or so), so wanted to up our
> bwlimit like so:
>
> rsync -a %p postgres@192.168.80.174:/WAL_Archive/ && rsync
> --bwlimit=1875 -az %p postgres@14.121.70.98:/WAL_Archive/
>
>
> The db is showing the change.
> SHOW archive_command:
> rsync -a %p postgres@192.168.80.174:/WAL_Archive/ && rsync
> --bwlimit=1875 -az %p postgres@14.121.70.98:/WAL_Archive/
>
>
> Yet, the running processes never get above the original bwlimit of
> 1250. Have I missed a step? Would "kill -HUP <archiver pid>" help?
> (I'm leery of trying that untested though)
>
> ps aux | grep rsync
> postgres 27704  0.0  0.0  63820  1068 ?        S    16:55   0:00 sh -c
> rsync -a pg_xlog/000000010000071700000070
> postgres@192.168.80.174:/WAL_Archive/ && rsync --bwlimit=1250 -az
> pg_xlog/000000010000071700000070 postgres@14.121.70.98:/WAL_Archive/
> postgres 27714 37.2  0.0  68716  1612 ?        S    16:55   0:01 rsync
> --bwlimit=1250 -az pg_xlog/000000010000071700000070
> postgres@14.121.70.98:/WAL_Archive/
> postgres 27715  3.0  0.0  60764  5648 ?        S    16:55   0:00 ssh
> -l postgres 14.121.70.98 rsync --server -logDtprz --bwlimit=1250 .
> /WAL_Archive/
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> bricklen
>