Michael has a good point. The other major factor where commit=y is used is the buffer= parameter. I hope you are not importing using the default but have specified something like buffer=1048576 or larger HTH -- Mark D Powell -- -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael McMullen Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 2:31 PM To: oracle-l Subject: Re: Import with commit=Y very slow What are the columns in your table? Unless new versions have changed some column types would cause a commit=y to automatically commit every single insert. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l