Interesting. Longs always caused a lot of problems. Not just with imports... Did you get any relevant info from sar itself? I mean, it appears your problem was one of I/O wait, did it show up in the OS monitoring tools? Cheers Nuno Souto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
----- Original Message ----- > > the real issue was a poor io subsystem, but oracle's handling of longs > during import did not help. never followed up on the internals of it. a > document on metalink purporting to shed light on issues w/importing longs > was ... "not available to me" (or something like that). > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Nuno Souto 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).
