Here is one way of speeding things up: Export: Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Production on Wednesday, 20 December, 2006 15:58:21 Copyright (c) 2003, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved. ;;; Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.3.0 - Produc tion With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options Starting "SYSTEM"."SYS_EXPORT_SCHEMA_01": parfile=exp.par Estimate in progress using BLOCKS method... Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/TABLE/TABLE_DATA ;;; Export> EXIT_CLIENT Total estimation using BLOCKS method: 167.0 GB Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/USER Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/SYSTEM_GRANT Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/ROLE_GRANT Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/DEFAULT_ROLE Processing object type SCHEMA_EXPORT/PRE_SCHEMA/PROCACT_SCHEMA ORA-39125: Worker unexpected fatal error in KUPW$WORKER.UNLOAD_METADATA while ca lling KUPF$FILE.WRITE_LOB [] ORA-19502: write error on file "/ODATA/oradata/news/news_archive.dmp", blockno 5 (blocksize=4096) ORA-27061: waiting for async I/Os failed Linux Error: 6: No such device or address Additional information: -1 Additional information: 4096 ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_SYS_ERROR", line 95 ORA-06512: at "SYS.KUPW$WORKER", line 6228 ----- PL/SQL Call Stack ----- object line object handle number name 0x59641804 14916 package body SYS.KUPW$WORKER 0x59641804 6293 package body SYS.KUPW$WORKER 0x59641804 2339 package body SYS.KUPW$WORKER 0x59641804 6854 package body SYS.KUPW$WORKER 0x59641804 1259 package body SYS.KUPW$WORKER Job "SYSTEM"."SYS_EXPORT_SCHEMA_01" stopped due to fatal error at 15:59:33 ORA-39014: One or more workers have prematurely exited. This has completed really quicky, performance was great. I'm about to congratulate Oracle by opening a TAR. _____ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of rjamya Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 3:37 PM To: Oracle Discussion List Subject: expdp and clob ... any tricks to speed up? I have couple of tables that take long time to export using expdp (10gr1 db) because they have a clob in them. Are there any tricks to speed that up? parallel is of no use it won't use it. ummm .. same with impdp ? TIA Rjamya ---------------------------------------------- Got RAC?