Are you running it over a (slow) network? CLOBs are exported a row at a time instead of a block at a time, so there is a network round trip for each row. I learned this when I tried to export a database in Japan from the U.S. over a very slow network link. A small database, much smaller than yours would have taken over 20 hours. Keith > Friends, > > This is on oracle 10.2.0.1 / AIX5.3L on IBM P595 machine which > has got 64 CPUs and ~200G RAM. > > Export of a 100GB schema in this database takes 11+ hours. The > reason export being slow , I feel , is 32 out 118 tables have CLOB > column. And the largest 2 tables (with CLOB) have 7 million > (20G in size) and 3.5 million (10G in size) rows respectively. > > 15 million rows are with CLOB data of the total 23 million rows > to be exported. > > Is the export expected to be this slow on such a hardware ? > Read on the net that splitting the big clob tables based on primary key > using QUERY parameter (of export) and running them in parallel > would help. Is this is a proven method ? I need to test it though. > > Any other suggestions to speed up this export ? Thanks in advance. > > Regards | Jp. > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l