Re: huge datafiles/need help

2001-08-03 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
Are you rebuilding indexes with unrecoverable/nologging and parallel clause or simple 'alter index index_name rebuild tablespace tbs_name', which is definately slow then using above options500/600MB indexes may take around 30/35 minutes depending of your parallel clause and cpu

Re: huge datafiles/need help

2001-08-03 Thread lyudah
Thank you everyone who replied. All suggestions were very helpful. I am bebuilding my indexes in a different tablespace. It runs very very slow.. - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 3:51 PM Lyuda; 1.

RE: huge datafiles/need help

2001-08-03 Thread Kevin Lange
Lyuda; 1. Create a new tablespace for the indexes on a seperate drive. Make sure you do this with a much more reasonable datafile size. (Watch it here maybe they did the big size because they were running out of possible files -- see the max_datafiles parm on the Create Database command)

Re: huge datafiles/need help

2001-08-03 Thread Peter Gram
Hi Lyuda This is not a nice situation to bee in, but the god new is that oracle can help you since you are using version 8.1.6 ! You can use the ALTER INDEX index-name REBUILD TABLESPACE new-tablespace_name; to move the index to a new tablespace and this can even be don online with ALTER INDEX

Re: huge datafiles/need help

2001-08-03 Thread Ron Rogers
Lyuda, You didn't say if you have other disk space available or not. If you do I would create the index/indexes tablespace/s on different drives then drop them from the original location. After you get breathing room you can reorg the database to a more comfortable setup. When you have removed

RE: huge datafiles/need help

2001-08-03 Thread Mohammad Rafiq
You can check alter index clause and you will find parallel option. You may use parallel 5 safely being default in initSID.ora. However it will start building 5 times extent in temp tablespace before completion of rebuilding. With rebuilding large indexes on regular basis we have to use all