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  • June 9, 2000 at 11:14 am #2074680

    Oracle c/s application via slow WAN

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    by douglas168 · about 22 years, 12 months ago

    Got the network problem at work:

    Two offices are connect via 56K FR. One office is the branch office where there is a NT server serving as the application server. The other office is the Corporate office where there is also another NT appiication server and a SUN serving as Oracle database server.

    Users at both locations use Win9x and TCP/IP.

    All users at the corporate office runs the Oracle application under acceptable time.

    The users at the branch office runs the same thing but in must slower rate.

    When I use Sniffer at the branch office, I see packets from server to client getting ‘ACK too long’ and ‘TNS slow server response’.

    All other programs(ie. Outlook, Web…etc) are running fine at both locations.

    Questions:
    Where is the most likely place of bottleneck?
    Besides getting bigger bandwidth, is there any way to improve the speed?

    Appreciate any help or recommendations!

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    • June 12, 2000 at 12:35 am #3778912

      Oracle c/s application via slow WAN

      by budnelson · about 22 years, 12 months ago

      In reply to Oracle c/s application via slow WAN

      Have seen the same problem with Oracle apps running over a WAN. You don’t state what type of app is running, but Bandwidth probably won’t help. The back-end negotiation occuring between the Oracle database and the client consists of many, many tiny packets. Not too noticeable on the local server , but over a Frame Relay network , factoring in Latency, the response time degrades quickly. Fatter clients probably won’t help much. Other than re-writing the app , about all you can do is
      eeucate the remote users to not perform mass changes over the WAN , but to select smaller subsets of the data. Or deploy Citrix.

    • June 12, 2000 at 3:14 am #3778810

      Oracle c/s application via slow WAN

      by ke4vtw · about 22 years, 12 months ago

      In reply to Oracle c/s application via slow WAN

      We just deployed a similar application, and what we found during performance testing was that you DON’T want to have an application server at your remote site. In our case, this was a much faster solution. As the previous answer stated, app/db communications is expensive. Moving the app server back home keeps the app/db connection path very short.

      You also want to make sure that your stored procedures, views, indexes and application components are as optimized for speed as they can be.
      Good luck!

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