I forgot to tell you that we are using a netapp (nfs based disk) on
which the datafiles are located.
kouchba_at_yahoo.com (kouchba) wrote in message news:<f55a8ec8.0401140345.17e23c71_at_posting.google.com>...
> Hi there,
>
> We are using Oracle 8.1.7 on Solaris 7 and Oracle 7.3.4 as well.
> We compared the execution plan of a query under Oracle 7 and Oracle
> 8.1.7 and it is exactly the same (using the same indexes,..). The
> number of extents of the index is the same too. The data files of the
> two instances are located on the same disks. But each time we execute
> the query under Oracle 8 , it is about ten times slower. That
> slowliness is not related to that particular query but to the whole
> application when executed under Oracle 8.1.7. So I am thinking more of
> an instance problem rather than an application problem.
>
> It seems to be IO bound to me just as something which have changed in
> the way Oracle 8 interacts with the filesystem. I tried to play with
> the hidden parameter _filesystemio_options but it did not work.
>
> Any idea ?
>
> Thanks,
> Philippe (kouchba_at_yahoo.com, pbackouche_at_sepro-robotique.com)
Received on Wed Jan 14 2004 - 09:23:12 CST
