Re: Resend: performance problem with fetch using 8.1.7 32-bit client to access a 64-bit server

Ciaran Harron wrote:

> Just a note to say that we have solved this problem. The problem was
> indeed in the Oracle client shared library, as we suspected. This is a
> Oracle bug(2142623 and 1239470) which is in Oracle 32-bit and 64-bit
> clients on Solaris 8 since 8.1.7.2 and which has been fixed in
> 9.2.0.2. For every fetch the client library opens, reads and closes
> the oraus.msb message file. This causes a large overhead in systems
> calls and the point on contention is in the multiple read/write locks
> on the file.
>
> Oracle will not fix this bug.
>
> Ciaran

Please explain the following:

1. "and which has been fixed in 9.2.0.2"
2. "Oracle will not fix this bug."

Seems to me Oracle did fix the bug. Your apparent refusal to upgrade or patch is not Oracle's issue.

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