The RHEV engine database may grow without limit or until the disk fills up or consumes CPU
Issue
- RHV uses a Postgres database, named
engineby default, to drive and monitor its activities. - In large deployments where lots of VMs frequently start and stop, the database table
vm_dynamicmay grow until it consumes all available disk space.
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.x
- Red Hat Virtualization 4.x
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