I had to restart the export. Ran 8.5 hours this time. V$Session_Wait looks low right now. I have never used the Truss command. Unix admins don't give us access. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tanel Põder Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 2:45 PM To: ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Slow Export Are you exporting over network or locally in the server? V$SESSION_EVENT, V$SESSION_WAIT and truss -c should sufficient to reveal the cause.. Tanel. ----- Original Message ----- From: Smith, Ron <mailto:rlsmith@xxxxxxx> To: tanel.poder.003@xxxxxxx ; ORACLE-L <mailto:oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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