RE: Export taking to long

Ron,

you're taking a lot of steps that I would take myself. Which part of the machine starts to glow when you run this? I'll assume that the target file is not on a disk that's shared with any database files.
Running sar for the first few minutes of the export will probably show you where your bottleneck is.
I'd suspect disks or memory so sar -du would probably do to give you a steer.
Do you have any Oracle wait statistics for the period it was running?

BTW Ron, when you run that export are you sure that your password is hidden?

It should show up on the process list if you run it like that.

Cheers,
Mike

-----Original Message-----

I have an export of a 16G database that is consistently taking 6 hours to export.
It doesn't matter what time of the day or night the script is executed. There is
very little activity on the server. Any ideas?

#!/bin/ksh

export ORACLE_SID=adprod
export ORACLE_HOME=`grep $ORACLE_SID /etc/oratab | cut -d : -f2` PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:. export USERPASS=system/sysada2
#
# Create a new pipe each time
#

if [ -p exp_pipe_$ORACLE_SID ]

        then rm exp_pipe_$ORACLE_SID
fi
mknod exp_pipe_$ORACLE_SID p

OUTFILE="/oracle_dba/expimp/adprod/adprod_exp_full_`date '+%m%d%y'`.dmp.Z" LOGFILE="/oracle_dba/expimp/adprod/adprod_exp_full_`date '+%m%d%y'`.log"
#
# Begin compress job and export to pipe with userid and password hidden
#

compress < /oracle_dba/expimp/adprod/exp_pipe_adprod > $OUTFILE & exp $USERPASS full=y compress=n consistent=y recordlength=65535 direct=y file=/oracle_dba/expimp/adprod/exp_pipe_adprod log= $LOGFILE Ron Smith
DBA
Kerr-McGee Corp  

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