If this was Windows, I'd expect the disk is fragmented.

What is the nature of the disk space under these files?  Same disk or 
allocation as others or somehow separate?

Every writer on this list (that I've noticed) has been emphatic that MPs 
before MP4 have a myriad of problems.

cheers, wayne

Gravizi, Thomas wrote, in part,  on 4/18/2007 4:26 PM:
>
> Has anyone experienced Oracle temp.dbf files backing up extremely 
> slow?  All other .dbf files are backing up just fine, but when it gets 
> to the temp files, it bogs down.  We have 5 temp files, and those take 
> just over 5 hours to complete.  4 of the files are 8GB, and 1 is 5GB.  
> Anyone have any thoughts?  We are using NBU 6.0 MP3 and backing up on 
> fiber attached LTO3 tape drives.
>