Re: 2x Oracle slowdown from 2.2.16 to 2.4.4

[Jeff V. Merkey]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 05:45:16PM -0700, Brian Strand wrote:
> We are running 3 Oracle servers, each dual CPU, 1 1GB and 2 2GB memory, 
>  between 36-180GB of RAID.  On June 26, I upgraded all boxes from Suse 
> 7.0 to Suse 7.2 (going from kernel version 2.2.16-40 to 2.4.4-14). 
>  Reviewing Oracle job times (jobs range from a few minutes to 10 hours) 
> before and after, performance is almost exactly twice as poor after the 
> upgrade versus before the upgrade.  Nothing in the hardware or Oracle 
> configuration has changed on any server.  Does anyone have any ideas as 
> to what might cause this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Brian Strand
> CTO Switch Management
> 
> 

Oracle performance is critical in requiring fast disk access.  Oracle is
virtually self-contained with regard to the subsystems it uses -- it 
provides most of it's own.  Oracle slowdowns are related to either 
problems in the networking software for remote SQL operations, and 
disk access witb regard to jobs run locally.  If it's slower for local
SQL processing as well as remote I would suspect a problem with the 
low level disk interface.

Jeff

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