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RE: Perfomrance Issue When using BEQ protocol

From: Mark W. Farnham <mwf_at_rsiz.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 07:05:20 -0400
Message-ID: <KNEIIDHFLNJDHOOCFCDKIECDFAAA.mwf@rsiz.com>


Are you trying to measure the time to connect or the time to suck matching amounts of data through the straw?

I think what you are actually measuring is how long it takes TNSPING to parse your arguments and determine whether a straw that can be used exists.

>From your data it appears you might be better off with TCP if you are
chronically connecting, grabbing a very small amount of data, and disconnecting (since the difference in elapsed time of the connection location might be a significant component of the overall task.) To really tell, though, you would need to make a connection, since there is significant overhead in an actual connection beyond verifying that contact is possible. Most of that overhead is probably the same for both methods, since it is largely internal to the database engine.

Now if that really is your job profile, you're probably a candidate for some sort of connection pooling or multiple threading.

If, on the other hand, you're trying to measure which straw has bigger capacity, I think you want a test that draws a lot of data through the straw per connection. To make the test fair for your apparent purpose, you'll want to check that you've done everything you can to advise the Oracle software and the OS that your connection is actually local (short of specifying BEQ) for the TCP connection.

Interesting thought pattern to consider TNSPING in the context of PING to check the data movement capacity. I wonder if Oracle could add data packet shoving with PING-like specifications to TNSPING without creating a security hole or destabilizing an "always works" diagnostic tool. I don't think they had the capacity testing aspect of PING in mind when they named the tool.

mwf

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org]On Behalf Of Ahmed Abdel Fattah Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 3:10 AM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Perfomrance Issue When using BEQ protocol

Dear All,

I have an environment that has two databases, OFSA & ODS. Database ODS has a database link to the OFSA database. This database link uses a connect string called OFSA, which is defined as follows:
OFSA =
  (DESCRIPTION =
    (ADDRESS_LIST =
      (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = CI-DW-PRD)(PORT = 1521))     )
    (CONNECT_DATA =
      (SERVICE_NAME =OFSA)
    )
  )
There is a batch job that run on the server and that uses the above database link to retrieve some data from the OFSA database. Due to performance issues on the above batch job, I suggested to implement the BEQ protocol in the connect string that is used by the above databse link
as long as the two databases are on the same server, and because I read some documents that BEQ is faster than TCP/IP. So, I created another connect string
as follows:
PROD =
  (DESCRIPTION =
    (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = BEQ)(PROGRAM = oracle)(ARGV0 = oracleOFSA)(ARGS = '(DESCRIPTION=(LOCAL=YES)(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=BEQ)))')(ENVS = 'ORACLE_SID=OFSA,ORACLE_HOME=/apps/oracle/product/8.1.7'))   )
The I test connection using the two connect strings, using the tnsping utility
over a period of time, and I found that using the BEQ connect string is much slower than using the TCP/IP connect string. Following are sample test results:



Attempting to contact (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=CIB-DW-PRD)(PORT=1521)) OK (10 msec)
TNS Ping Utility for Solaris: Version 8.1.7.2.0 - Production on 07-JUL-2004 17:4
5:56
(c) Copyright 1997 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. Attempting to contact
(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=BEQ)(PROGRAM=oracle)(ARGV0=oracleOFSA)( ARGS='(DESCRIPTION=(LOCAL=YES)(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=BEQ)))')(ENVS='ORACLE_SID=O FSA,
ORACLE_HOME=/apps/oracle/product/8.1.7')) OK (160 msec)

TNS Ping Utility for Solaris: Version 8.1.7.2.0 - Production on 07-JUL-2004 17:4
6:00
(c) Copyright 1997 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. Attempting to contact (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=CIB-DW-PRD)(PORT=1521)) OK (10 msec)
TNS Ping Utility for Solaris: Version 8.1.7.2.0 - Production on 07-JUL-2004 17:4
6:00
(c) Copyright 1997 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. Attempting to contact
(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=BEQ)(PROGRAM=oracle)(ARGV0=oracleOFSA)( ARGS='(DESCRIPTION=(LOCAL=YES)(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=BEQ)))')(ENVS='ORACLE_SID=O FSA,
ORACLE_HOME=/apps/oracle/product/8.1.7')) OK (70 msec)

TNS Ping Utility for Solaris: Version 8.1.7.2.0 - Production on 07-JUL-2004 17:4
6:03
(c) Copyright 1997 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. Attempting to contact (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=CIB-DW-PRD)(PORT=1521)) OK (10 msec)
TNS Ping Utility for Solaris: Version 8.1.7.2.0 - Production on 07-JUL-2004 17:4
6:03
(c) Copyright 1997 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. Attempting to contact
(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=BEQ)(PROGRAM=oracle)(ARGV0=oracleOFSA)( ARGS='(DESCRIPTION=(LOCAL=YES)(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=BEQ)))')(ENVS='ORACLE_SID=O FSA,
ORACLE_HOME=/apps/oracle/product/8.1.7')) OK (60 msec)

TNS Ping Utility for Solaris: Version 8.1.7.2.0 - Production on 07-JUL-2004 17:4
6:06
(c) Copyright 1997 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. Attempting to contact (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=CIB-DW-PRD)(PORT=1521)) OK (10 msec)
TNS Ping Utility for Solaris: Version 8.1.7.2.0 - Production on 07-JUL-2004 17:4
6:06
(c) Copyright 1997 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. Attempting to contact
(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=BEQ)(PROGRAM=oracle)(ARGV0=oracleOFSA)( ARGS='(DESCRIPTION=(LOCAL=YES)(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=BEQ)))')(ENVS='ORACLE_SID=O FSA,
ORACLE_HOME=/apps/oracle/product/8.1.7')) OK (70 msec)

TNS Ping Utility for Solaris: Version 8.1.7.2.0 - Production on 07-JUL-2004 17:4
6:10
(c) Copyright 1997 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. Attempting to contact (ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=CIB-DW-PRD)(PORT=1521)) OK (0 msec)
TNS Ping Utility for Solaris: Version 8.1.7.2.0 - Production on 07-JUL-2004 17:4
6:10
(c) Copyright 1997 Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. Attempting to contact
(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=BEQ)(PROGRAM=oracle)(ARGV0=oracleOFSA)( ARGS='(DESCRIPTION=(LOCAL=YES)(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=BEQ)))')(ENVS='ORACLE_SID=O FSA,
ORACLE_HOME=/apps/oracle/product/8.1.7')) OK (150 msec)

Can someone till me if this is a normal behavior? Is I missing some information?

Thanks & Best Regards
Ahmed



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