RE: Middle Tier spawning sessions, possible performance issues

2003-01-31 Thread Orr, Steve
Title: RE: Middle Tier spawning sessions, possible performance issues Anjo, Actually I saw this in your (et al) famous YAPP paper. Still curious, Steve -Original Message-From: Orr, Steve Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 10:32 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE

RE: Middle Tier spawning sessions, possible performance issues

2003-01-30 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
R - I haven't yet been the victim of .net (thankfully), and I hope someone with direct experience will reply. But just in case, I'll mention a couple of ideas. Try to sample the SQL that is being inflicted on Oracle. Microsoft interfaces tend to have default settings for the lowest common

Middle Tier spawning sessions, possible performance issues

2003-01-30 Thread rgaffuri
I'm far more of a developer than a DBA, but when someone told me this it set off a big red light in my head. We are using an Oracle Backend with a .net front front. One of our .net guys told me that the middle tier they are using 'spawns' sessions. We have 2 pretty distinct skillsets here so

RE: Middle Tier spawning sessions, possible performance issues

2003-01-30 Thread Adrian Roe
250 connections from the middle tier does sound a bit suspect, way over the top. I'm assuming 'spawns' relates to establishing connections as and when required and then disconnecting when done. I think you will find that there is quite an Oracle overhead in handling all of the connect/disconnect

Re: Middle Tier spawning sessions, possible performance issues

2003-01-30 Thread Anjo Kolk
You are kind of on the right track. The number of sessions doesn't really matter. What matters is that they logon/logoff all the time. That is the worst thing that you can do in an Oracle database. Why? The session will allocate the cursors, parse them, close them everytime the session will

RE: Middle Tier spawning sessions, possible performance issues

2003-01-30 Thread Orr, Steve
Title: RE: Middle Tier spawning sessions, possible performance issues I read somewhere that for apps that constantly logon/logoff (like web apps), one possible thing to do is increase the cache size for the AUDSES$ sequence. Anyone done this and seen improvements? Curiously, Steve Orr

RE: Middle Tier spawning sessions, possible performance issues

2003-01-30 Thread Orr, Steve
Title: RE: Middle Tier spawning sessions, possible performance issues Any takers on this ?? -Original Message-From: Orr, Steve Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 10:32 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: Middle Tier spawning sessions, possible