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DataPump Export (EXPDP) Is Slow On GPFS (Doc ID 2000363.1)

Last updated on APRIL 03, 2020

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.2.0.5 and later
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
IBM AIX on POWER Systems (64-bit)

Symptoms

DataPump export is running slow when the location of dump files is on GPFS (GPFS is an IBM product - General Parallel File System )

Changes

 You observed this behavior, when the location where DataPump is dumping the information was changed from a different file system, mostly NFS, to GPFS.

Cause

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