Hopefully someone knows this, but my thoughts were along the same lines as what Mark said. If you do a CTAS and export from it twice, and the time taken is the same AND you saw undo reads both times, then I think I'm at a loss. Mathias On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Vladimir Barac <vbarac@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Thanks for replying, Mr. Ferguson > > > > Yes, same story – sequential reads on UNDO tablespace – happens for CTAS. > > > > Alert.log file contains lots of entries like this - Transaction recovery: > lock conflict caught and ignored. > > > > This 10.2.0.4 RAC, standard edition. > > > > I see this for the first time in 10 years. Literally, for the first time. > > * * > ------------------------------ > > *From:* mathiasmag@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:mathiasmag@xxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of > *Mathias > Magnusson > *Sent:* Monday, April 13, 2009 8:01 PM > *To:* Vladimir Barac > *Cc:* oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > *Subject:* Re: FTS, db file sequential read on undo > > > > Sorry. First reply and didn't watch how the "reply to" was set so it missed > the list. > > > > Vladimir, > > > > That sounds very strange indeed. Is this a situation you see with any table > or with just one? If you do a CTAS on dba_objects and export it, does it too > suffer from this effect? > > > > Have you just completed a large update to this table when you run this > analyze/export or has the table not had any recent transactions when you run > this? Do you suffer the same problem if you run your command twice in a row > or is it just the first invocation that shows this effect? > > > > Mathias > > On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:36 PM, Vladimir Barac <vbarac@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > When accessing table for analyze or to export table, we are seeing "db file > sequential read" wait event. V$session_wait file# is 2, that is – UNDO > tablespace. Because of this analyze or export take forever to complete. > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the External Email Security System. > ______________________________________________________________________ > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This e-mail message and any attachments to it are for the sole use of the > intended recipients and may contain confidential and privileged information. > This e-mail message and any attachments are the property of Yusuf A. > Alghanim & Sons w.l.l. or any of its subsidiaries or affiliates (“Alghanim > Industries”). Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, or distribution of > this e-mail message or its attachments is prohibited. Any opinions expressed > in this message are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the > opinion of Alghanim Industries. If you are not an intended recipient, please > notify the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original > message and any attachments. > ______________________________________________________________________ >