RE: exp performance question ( direct=y)

[Mohan, Ross]

Title: RE: exp performance question ( direct=y)

But Lisa, don't you think Chris posts too much, just like on LazyDBA?

<very evil grin>

-----Original Message-----
From: Koivu, Lisa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 5:27 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject: RE: exp performance question ( direct=y)

Christopher, this is exactly why you should keep posting no matter what they whiners say.
Thanks for sending this to the list.  I learned something today.

Have a great weekend!
Lisa Koivu
Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA

-----Original Message-----
From:   Christopher Spence [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Friday, June 22, 2001 4:45 PM
To:     Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Subject:        RE: exp performance question ( direct=y)

1)  You can expect to see as much as 75% performance gain on export.  There
is just about no performance gain on the import.  The reason for this is it
avoids 3 copies and 2 character conversions when exporting the data. This is
due to the conversion from column major to row major when bringing in the
buffers into the buffer cache, then converting back to column major to
handle the select.  I would recomend looking at the recordlength parameter
as it has a good (1-4%) effect on performance initially, but after 32k it
generally has very little performance gain.  During conventional exports,
recordlength can prove as much as 6% performance gain.  Ussually setting it
to 32k is the best you will see.

One thing to know about exports is conventional exports are cpu bound where
as direct exports are Io bound.  But either will only use a fractional
portion of the cpu/io.  Also note, if your using consistent exports it will
incur locking as well as redo/rollback generation.  So time for exports
cannot be 100% accurately consistent.

Another thing is direct exports use as much as 65% less memory than
conventional and about 35% less cpu.  Also direct exports tend to do a three
fold increase in io throughput over conventional.  You can ussually export a
max export sustained speed of around 5-6% of max i/o.

2)  Target, source, and client used to export must be of the same character
set and you cannot export lobs.

This is perhaps more than you asked for, but hopefully it helps.

"Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if
both are frozen."

Christopher R. Spence
Oracle DBA
Fuelspot





-----Original Message-----
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2001 12:56 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L




Oracle : 8.0.5
Platform : Sun




Currently we have cron job every night (starting from 11pm) to do export. I
changed the setting "direct" to "y" two days ago while leaving all other
parameters unchanged, hoping to gain some performance. I am a bit surprused
to find that it did not. It actually took longer to create dump file with
less data to export. The whole exp process takes about 2 hours to finish.
Yes, there could be lots of other unix processes running during that time.
But I would still expect to see some improvement because we are doing this
way for quite a while. So my questions are:

1. From your "real" export experience, how much performance boost did you
see when you set "direct=y"?

2. If "direct=y" improves the performance, why would anyone want to use 
"direct=n"?

Thanks.

Guang

-- here is my orcle dump file's time stamp:
(dmp.1 and dmp.2 are from direct=y,
dmp.3, dmp.4 and dmp.5 are from direct=n).

-rw-rw-r--   1 mt       prog     1042197132 Jun 18 01:05 oracle.dmp.5.gz
-rw-rw-r--   1 mt       prog     1042375633 Jun 19 01:04 oracle.dmp.4.gz
-rw-rw-r--   1 mt       prog     1042556662 Jun 20 00:25 oracle.dmp.3.gz
-rw-rw-r--   1 mt       prog     1034773279 Jun 21 01:17 oracle.dmp.2.gz
-rw-rw-r--   1 mt       prog     1035237986 Jun 22 01:22 oracle.dmp.1.gz




--here is the parameter file:
BUFFER = 64000
COMPRESS = Y
CONSISTENT = N
CONSTRAINTS = Y
DIRECT = Y
FILE = /oracle/exports/oracle.dmp.pipe
#FULL = Y
GRANTS = Y
INDEXES = Y
LOG = /oracle/exports/export.log
ROWS = Y
USERID = xxx/yyy
OWNER = (aaa,bbb)

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