Test it. Do both imports, tracking performance metrics as you go. Easily done with statspack - just take a snapshot before and after each import job, run the reports, see where the time was spent. HTH Jared On 3/22/06, Alfonso León <aleon68@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi everybody: > > I'm importing a table with 9M records and when I use commit=N it takes > about 5 hours and with commit=Y it takes about 14hours. (NO INDEXES) > > Would anybody can tell me why? it shouldn't take longer the commit=N? > > I'm using Oracle Enterprise 10.2 and the export file is from 9.2.0.6. > with UNDO tablespace of 3 GB. > > TIA > > -- > Alfonso Leon > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist