Azhar,

Just two thoughts off the top of my head to improve loading of records:
1.  Put database in noarchivelog mode to avoid redo generation (if 
possible).
2.  Drop all indexes on target tables (if possible), then load data, then 
recreate all indexes on target tables.

Jim

Jim Hawkins
Lead SAPR/3 Oracle Database Administrator
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> 
> HI ALL,
> We have to load almost 3 millions records of average row size of 150 
bytes.
> We are importing data using sqloader with ROWS=4000 and bindsize=8450000 .
> We have adjusted the rollback segment to almost  10 m with 8 extents 
enough
> for single transaction size and considering 30% rollback overhead. We
> adjusted the OPTIMAL TO 10 M to have avoid rollback extension
> Rollback segment, databuffer cache have hit ratio of 100%.
> 
> The loading was fast only for first 10 commits but then it slowed like
> snail. LOADING TOOK 22 hours in the first run on ORACLE8i NT4 128 megs RAM
> .
> SGA figures in M :
> NAME                     VALUE
> -------------------- ---------
> Fixed Size            .0676384
> Variable Size        239.02734
> Database Buffers       39.0625
> Redo Buffers         7.8203125
>                      ---------
> sum                  285.97779
> ( we can't use direct path due to functions in sqlldr controlfile). .
> Couldn't figure out the bottleneck yet.
> Any ideas.
> TIA
> Azhar Siddiq,
> DBA
> LMK Resources
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