Index creation never runs in parallel worker processes, only data load can run in parallel. Even metasata load/unload is run by a single worker process. You will need to trace impdp to find why something is fast and slow. Google for 'expdp trace'. I think even on 12.1 index creation is run by only one thread. It may use PX slaves if index was originally parallel by only one worker thread does that whilest others are idle. Raj