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Allocate Swap Space

Swapping is undesirable and causes performance to degrade. Vertica recommends that you allocate swap space as follows: 

 

RAM

Swap Space

 

1 GB

2 GB

 

2 GB

4 GB

 

up to 32 GB

RAM + 2 GB

 

more than 32 GB

RAM or less

Do not place a swap file on a disk containing the Vertica data files. If a host has only two disks (boot and data), put the swap file on the boot disk.