Some thoughts: 1.) NOLOGGING is sure to speed things up significantly. 2.) Without nologging, you're sure to generate tons of redo. If you're = in archive log mode, are you sure you're not filling the archive log = area? If you do, the rebuild will silently hang, and take even longer. 3.) Look at V$SESSION_WAIT. What's the rebuild waiting on? If it's = not waiting on direct path read/write, then you're not sorting to disk, = so increasing SORT_AREA_SIZE will not do any good. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Fuad Arshad Sent: Thursday, August 19, 2004 9:07 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Index Rebuild Tuning=20 Scenario 1.8 Billion rows table non partitioned. index key 30 bytes=20 parallel 8 on index parallel 2 on table=20 Oracle 9.2.0.4=20 Workarea_size set to manual sort_area_size set to 100M =20 Tablespace locally managed non assm =20 The table is not partitioned because of vendor requirement=20 the rebuild is taking 12 hrs and is still runing . =20 =20 need help tuning this rebuidl it is not an online rebuild. we are doing migration testing on a test box. even though production is = 2wice as faster=20 thisis not acceptable with the users. need advise. the index size is around 57G =20 =20 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------