Hi, I am trying to move a database to linux (OEL 5.4, 64-bit) and 11.2.0.1. This happens to be an EBS R12.0.4 database. o source 11.1.0.6(32-bit), database size ~250GB, expdp takes 4 hours to write 43GB dmp files o destination is 11.2.0.1 (64-bit), after import database size is ~125GB, impdp takes 48 hours 48 hours ! So, I turned on the metrics and I found that the following took more than an hour - Completed 43369 PACKAGE_BODY objects in 86603 => 24 hours Completed 346292 OBJECT_GRANT objects in 46907 => 13 hours Completed 57170 INDEX objects in 24014 => 7 hours Some more reading thru the trace and I find that even though parallel is set to 8 (this is running on a box with 2 Quad cores) and 64GB RAM - Problem 1=> OBJECT_GRANT and being done by a single worker and the trace shows the following amounting to 9 out of 13 hours (KUPW: KUPP$PROC.CHANGE_USER called. KUPW: KUPP$PROC.CHANGE_USER returned. KUPW: HARDconnected to SYS) KUPW:22:40:58.407: 1: In function CONNECT_USER with connect type HARD current user ALR new user SYS KUPW:22:40:58.407: 1: KUPP$PROC.CHANGE_USER called. KUPW:22:40:58.434: 1: KUPP$PROC.CHANGE_USER returned. KUPW:22:40:58.434: 1: HARDconnected to SYS KUPW:22:40:58.434: 1: DBMS_LOB.TRIM called. v_single_ddl_clob KUPW:22:40:58.434: 1: DBMS_LOB.TRIM returned. KUPW:22:40:58.434: 1: In procedure BUILD_OBJECT_STRINGS KUPW:22:40:58.434: 1: Process order: 49451 and order number: 1 KUPW:22:40:58.434: 1: DBMS_LOB.COPY called. KUPW:22:40:58.435: 1: DBMS_LOB.COPY returned. KUPW:22:40:58.435: 1: In procedure PUT_DDL with OBJECT_GRANT:"ALR" KUPW:22:40:58.435: 1: In function CONNECT_USER with connect type HARD current user SYS new user ALR KUPW:22:40:58.435: 1: KUPP$PROC.CHANGE_USER called. KUPW:22:40:58.435: 1: KUPP$PROC.CHANGE_USER returned. KUPW:22:40:58.435: 1: HARDconnected to ALR KUPW:22:40:58.435: 1: In procedure RECREATE_DDL KUPW:22:40:58.440: 1: Object created Problem 2=> the package bodies are being loaded in serial by a single worker ! Is anyone else seeing this ? Any ideas on how to go about get this done faster ? Thanks, VKS -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l