Yo could also try to pre-create the extents and load into different table partitions to minimize the impact of the HWM "management"... we had to work out a similar trick in order to load a lot of online data coming from many different sources into a RAC system. regards. On 2/10/07, Sai Selvaganesan <ssaisundar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
thx for the reply the number of slaves it very high(32) for a table creation (table size at the end of the creation is 20GB) will reducing this amount of parallelsim benefit. regarding the question about how big a problem this HV contention is, it is the biggest wait event during CTAS. would you recommend disabling the HWM through underscore parameter or would you see if reducing the parallelsim along with the number of nodes this can run help this or increase the extent size. now CTAS runs on all nodes(it is a 10 node rac) with this hig a parallelism (i personally feel this is a baad way to do but i would love your recommendation) again thx a lot for your help sai
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