MessageAre you exporting over network or locally in the server? V$SESSION_EVENT, V$SESSION_WAIT and truss -c should sufficient to reveal the cause.. Tanel. ----- Original Message ----- From: Smith, Ron To: tanel.poder.003@xxxxxxx ; ORACLE-L Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 2:36 PM Subject: RE: Slow Export There are several exports in different databases, exporting various size objects. The thing is, this started about the middle of December. Before that, everything was fine. Ron