On 5/31/05, Luis Fernando Cerri <lcerri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Could you guess the explanation for the import range from 15 to 30 min = =3D > in > the SAME configuration of file-systems, db params? Remember I were =3D > alone in > the box... Hi Luis, Perhaps the EMC I/O cache was involved in these odd results?! Were you the only user of the disk-array? Do you remember its cache size? Jerome -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l