Looks like I get to be the first to ask: Why are you rebuilding the index? Jared On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 06:07, Fuad Arshad wrote: > Scenario > 1.8 Billion rows table non partitioned. > index key 30 bytes > parallel 8 on index parallel 2 on table > Oracle 9.2.0.4 > Workarea_size set to manual sort_area_size set to 100M > > Tablespace locally managed non assm > > The table is not partitioned because of vendor requirement > the rebuild is taking 12 hrs and is still runing . > > > need help tuning this rebuidl > it is not an online rebuild. > we are doing migration testing on a test box. even though production is 2wice > as faster > thisis not acceptable with the users. > need advise. > the index size is around 57G ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------