In a UNIX system it is better to have more small size datafiles than a few or one large datafile: The reason is that UNIX aquires an exclusive file write lock and therefore if you use multiple files you will avoid a situation where multiple simultaneous writes to data files become serialized and consequently reduce I/O performance: For example instead of one 2GB Data file , split it into 8 250mb: By the way I am addressing OLTP type systems with this e-mail
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