Importing on Linux is SO SLOW.

I haven't had time for adequate performance-testing yet, but attempting to move a Siebel schema from HPUX 10.20/Oracle 8.0.5 to SUSE Linux/Oracle 8.1.7 is taking FOREVER - the export piped to gzip took a little over three hours, but the import has now taken over a day and it's only 1/3 done.

Would setting "AUTOEXTEND ON" for the datafiles slow things down? I had a reasonably fast import of the development data, but it was smaller.

Also, if I do a full import to Linux, do I have to rerun catalog.sql and catproc.sql?

Sizes:

prdcrm2:/home/oracle # gzip -l devcrm.exp.gz siebel.exp.gz

         compressed        uncompressed  ratio uncompressed_name
           53529593           627102720  91.4% devcrm.exp
          279769621          3032629248  90.7% siebel.exp
          333299214          3659731968  90.8% (totals)

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