Mark Wong wrote:

> Does anyone have any tips for tuning the performance of creating an
> index on a table with data already in it?


As Holger wrote 3 months ago:

>To increase index creation performance you could check some database
parameters.

1. DATA_CACHE should be as big as possible to minimize disk I/O.

2. Increase the parameter _IDXFILE_LIST_SIZE. 
Possible values are 0 (=Off), 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192.
This parameter influences the create index algorithm. It defines the maximum

number of temporary buffers used for the merge algorithm. A larger number of

buffers decreases the number of merge steps, and thus increases performance.

But DATE_CACHE must be at least three times larger than _IDXFILE_LIST_SIZE.

3. Spread your database over several disks to increase performance by
parallel I/O.

You can set database parameters via dbmgui or dbmcli. 

HTH,
Holger

SAP Labs Berlin<

Elke
SAP Labs Berlin

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