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Re: Index creation - performance problem

From: Paul de Anguera <nospam_at_quidnunc.net>
Date: 2000/03/13
Message-ID: <8ahh30$54e$3@news.chatlink.com>#1/1

In article <38C7A1BC.748D3882_at_royalpbk.com>, Adam Roze <arz_at_royalpbk.com> wrote:
>Disklayout is:
>temp, system, rbs - disk1
>redo logs - disk2
>users - disk3
>big table - disk4
>ind - disk5
>ind2 - disk6
>ind3 - disk7
>
>Disk array monitor + v$filestat shows that oracle reads & writes to the
>datafile that contains the big table.
>All this happens during import of the user - owner of this table.
>Yesterday I divided import process into 3 steps :
> 1) import with indexfile=.... to get file with definition of the indexes
> 2) import the tables only - indexes=n in the parfile
> 3) create indexes from the file from step 1...
>Can you do such an import and check if your database writes to the table during
>index creation ?

..
If it writes to the table which it is indexing, I would be very surprised! I would have expected your slow-down to be caused by placing your RBS and temporary files on the same drive.

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Received on Mon Mar 13 2000 - 00:00:00 CST

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