I/O intensive work. Can you tell us a bit about the storage and runtime I/O characteristic you've monitored? >>> >>>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. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l