Originally posted by anandkl
Do an export with direct=Y and while importing specify recordlength to its max value.And as told by pando do not import the indexes.It would faster for index creation after only data has been imported.
Make sure u set the sort_area_size=1GB with nologging clause.

regards
anandkl
1GB you must be kidding right...? more than 32MB does no extra benefit