It's not possible to solve any performance problems without CPU usage and waits. I recommend: - get Event1006 trace file of your sqlloader session as defined at http://www.unal-bilisim.com/products/itrprof/itrprof_user_manual.html#prepar eTrace . - run itrprof at http://www.unal-bilisim.com/products/itrprof/itrprof.html ----- Original Message ----- To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 12:19 PM > > HI ALL, > We have to load almost 3 millions records of average row size of 150 bytes. > We are importing data using sqloader with ROWS=4000 and bindsize=8450000 . > We have adjusted the rollback segment to almost 10 m with 8 extents enough > for single transaction size and considering 30% rollback overhead. We > adjusted the OPTIMAL TO 10 M to have avoid rollback extension > Rollback segment, databuffer cache have hit ratio of 100%. > > The loading was fast only for first 10 commits but then it slowed like > snail. LOADING TOOK 22 hours in the first run on ORACLE8i NT4 128 megs RAM > . > SGA figures in M : > NAME VALUE > -------------------- --------- > Fixed Size .0676384 > Variable Size 239.02734 > Database Buffers 39.0625 > Redo Buffers 7.8203125 > --------- > sum 285.97779 > ( we can't use direct path due to functions in sqlldr controlfile). . > Couldn't figure out the bottleneck yet. > Any ideas. > TIA > Azhar Siddiq, > DBA > LMK Resources > > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 > San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: unal-bilisim INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).