Look in sqlnet.ora. The default settings include
sqlnet.authentication<something i can't recall and have deleted> = (NTS).
Comment this line out and you'll find connection times decrease. This comes
at a security cost.
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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK
"Neil" <neil_at_nospam.com> wrote in message
news:g8Gu7.27392$qi.3616431_at_news2-win.server.ntlworld.com...
> Just installed 8.1.7 enterprise on W2000 with 1Gb RAM
> Previously had 8.1.5 which I wiped before install.
>
> Initial Connect times from any application is very slow (~30s), subsequent
> connects are <1s.
> This is true of the oracle tools as well as other applications, such as
SQL
> Navigator. Having other applications with open connections when trying to
> open one from a new application has no effect (that is it still takes 30s)
>
> TNS ping reports 30ms.
>
> The database is the one built when Oracle is installed with no changes.
>
> Ive tried changing TNS entries and adding new ones to use the ip address,
> localhost and also internal connections with no joy.
>
> Interestingly if I open one connection using internal connection (30s)
then
> opening one using tcp takes <1s.
>
> Has anyone seen this and know a solution, this didnt happen with 8.1.5 so
I
> guess that theres something wrong.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Neil
>
>
Received on Wed Oct 03 2001 - 11:36:04 CDT
