Hi Martin, I'm not in a position to test at the moment, but how about: create table new_tab parallel 32 as select /*+ parallel(t 32) */ * from tab1 t; ?? Also, you may want to add 'nologging' to make it fly even faster. (But, consider the recovery implications.) create table new_tab nologging parallel 32 as select /*+ parallel(t 32) */ * from tab1 t; Of course, this assumes you have enough CPU and I/O available to support 32-way parallelism, else you may be in for a disappointment. Hope that helps, -Mark ________________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Martin Klier [usn@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 7:55 AM To: oracle-l Subject: Re: PX Deq Credit: send blkd Hi again. I've got still the same problem, but I tried to simplify it, reduce it to the essentials. I tried to CREATE TABLE2 TEST PARALLEL 32 AS SELECT * FROM TEST; It works, but the 32 parallel processes are only query processes, there is only ONE writing process. Due to that, all parallel query processes are waiting with "PX Deq Credit: send blkd" How can I make it parallel on WRITING side of the statement? The bahaviour is similar or same if I do an INSERT /*+ APPEND PARALLEL(TEST2,32) */ INTO TEST2 SELECT * FROM TEST; when both sides are identically partitioned (4 partitions). Any further clues? Or known no-gos? Thanks a lot, Martin Martin Klier schrieb: > I've got massive wait events named "PX Deq Credit: send blkd". As far as > I know, that's a parallel query issue, a producer is faster then the > consumer. But thats a textbook explanantion I simply don't understand. > The obvious option, to increase PARALLEL_EXECUTION_MESSAGE_SIZE, does > not fit since it's set to the (x86_64) architecture's maximum, 64k. > > The system is rather capable, and CPU load is less than 30%, disk IO > around 100MB/s, the underlying ASM diskgroups have been successfully > tested with nearly 1GB/s. > > The query in question is a huge MERGE statement with APPEND PARALLEL > hints, a little abstracted form here: > ... -- Usn's IT Blog for Linux, Oracle, Asterisk http://www.usn-it.de -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l