You can plan better for your installation if you understand how Ingres locations are typically used by various Ingres tasks.

An Ingres instance can perform several different types of tasks: normal operations, database maintenance, checkpoint, recovery. Some of these may proceed concurrently. Each task requires access to some of the Ingres locations.

For a simple instance using only the default locations, the following sections give an overview of which locations are used during which operations and the likely bandwidth requirements.