that's good to know ..adds to the mystery though. Its a 1.8Ghz processor; 1.00GB RAM -- but the same behavior is witnessed on several machines.
I ended up replacing the <ant:sql> task with an <ant:exec> which runs sqlplus directly to load and execute the statements in the file .. i'm not entirely happy with that because its not as elegant .. but the time is down from 15-20 mins to about 4 -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Ant-Sql-task-slow-tf1932043.html#a5300179 Sent from the Ant - Users forum at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]