Oops. Thank you. I have corrected that. I'll check and see if there is any improvement thank you so much Gene Gurevich "Alexander Fatkulin" <afatkulin@gmail. To com> "genegurevich@xxxxxxxxxxxx" Sent by: <genegurevich@xxxxxxxxxxxx> oracle-l-bounce@f cc reelists.org oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject Re: tunning an index build 07/18/2007 11:20 AM Please respond to afatkulin@xxxxxxx om No, the pga_aggreagte_target is *only* relevant if you have workarea_size_policy=auto. What you have done is used the defaults for *_area_size which are quite small. On 7/18/07, genegurevich@xxxxxxxxxxxx <genegurevich@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Alex, > > Yes, I have set pga_aggregate_target to 1.5G and workarea_size_policy is > manual. I thought that this will make > the sort_area_size (and all other area_size parameters) unused. IS that not > the case? > I am also working with the UNIX team to address the I/O contention that I > am seeing. > > thank you for your input > > > > Gene Gurevich -- Alex Fatkulin, The Pythian Group, http://www.pythian.com/blogs/author/alexf/ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l