>>RE: What happened!? What happened is that we appear to be hitting a nasty bug for AIX and 9203. A memory leak related to IMPort and XMLTYPE w/ CLOB storage; Metalink Bug 3330477. Casues IMP to slow to a crawl. I was wrong our env is 9203. Chris Marquez Oracle DBA HEYMONitor(tm) - heymonitor.com "Oracle Monitoring & Alerting Solution" ----Original Message----- From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 6:24 PM To: Marquez, Chris Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: What happened!? IMPort tables with "User Defined or XML Datatypes"....so slow! Try running a 10046 trace on the import session. If the import is being done across the network you may find that imp is very chatty. Jared On 4/15/05, Marquez, Chris <CMarquez@xxxxxxxx> wrote: --Env Oracle 9206 AIX 5.x I don't have much experience with "User Defined Datatypes" nor "XML Datatypes".=20 Trying to move a database for a client that uses these datatypes. (not sure but maybe some of them are Nested Tables or VARRAY's vs. "User Defined Datatype"...how can I tell the difference?) Anyway, in the same database I can IMPort * 15GB-20GB normal data (no indexes) per hour. * 10GB GB BLOB data per hour. but only * 324MB of "User Defined Datatypes" After 1 Hr. 15 Min. * 53MB of "XML Datatype" After 30 Min. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l