So I've been watching paint dry since before midnight, it's now 5:44am PST.
I have no idea whether slon is actually doing anything at this point. My
slave node (did an add), is quite large the table it's working on was 52GB
when it completed the transfer and is now 77GB, but has been that size for
over 2 hours (on disk du)

Just not sure if it's stuck or it's actually doing anything. I see this in
my stats table, and i have a single cpu pegged at 99-100% that has been
running for well;

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND




 54600 postgres  20   0 4617m 4.4g 2.0g R 99.7  1.7 399:57.68 postmaster






16398 | clsdb | 54600 |       10 | postgres | slon.remoteWorkerThread_1 |
10.13.200.232 |                 |       54260 |
2014-10-28 22:19:29.277022-07 | 2014-10-29 00:05:40.884649-07 | 2014-10-29
01:17:22.102619-07 | 2014-10-29 01:17:22.10262-07  | f
    | active | select "_cls".finishTableAfterCopy(143); analyze
"torque"."iimpressions";

I now have 5million rows backed up on the master.I'm watching to see if
anything negative happens, where I have to drop this node, just so the
master can truncate all that data and then start again. I'd rather not do
that if I come to believe this is still working and it may finish in the
next couple of hours?

I've set maintenance_work_mem to 10GB to try to give this some room, but no
changes.  This is a single process, but it's an index creation, one would
think it could use the 256GB of ram to it's advantage.

Anyways is there somewhere I can look in slon /postgres  to see if it's
doing anything more then sticking a cpu to 100% and making me crave sleep?

Thanks
Tory
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