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Why is it problematic to configure the database files and the system swap space on the same disk? What can happen?

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If the system starts swapping, the increased disk load will bring down database performance even further. Anyway, an heavy-swapping system will be nearly unusable, even when putting swap on dedicated disk.

Bottom line: be sure your RAM is enough for your workload, rather than worrying about swapping destination.

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