Satyakam Acharya
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Hi , We are planning to have few servers having quite a few windows services and they all are connected to an oracle Database.
All these services read input records from the database and process it further.
Is there anyway to assign fixed number of input records to each server ? We have F5 as the load balancer.
For example : If there are 3 servers and 100 input records then Server 1 gets 33 Server 2 gets 33 and Server 3 gets 34 records to process.
Your advice would be helpful.
All these services read input records from the database and process it further.
Is there anyway to assign fixed number of input records to each server ? We have F5 as the load balancer.
For example : If there are 3 servers and 100 input records then Server 1 gets 33 Server 2 gets 33 and Server 3 gets 34 records to process.
Your advice would be helpful.
Obviously 100 records is just an example, but it's hard to comment without facts. Enterprise Oracle, presumably. Are the servers on the same rack, or in different countries? Are you running Oracle clustering (RAC)? Are you running 11i or 12c? Was this question not considered by the data architect before acquiring the hardware????
You specifically asked for a fixed number of records to be pre-assigned -- what happens when your input load unexpectedly goes from 100 to 10,000?
You specifically asked for a fixed number of records to be pre-assigned -- what happens when your input load unexpectedly goes from 100 to 10,000?
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In general I'd agree with David, but if you take a RAC cluster as some kind of load balancing, then there would be several Oracle (RAC) instances dealing with e.g. 1 SQL statement....
Where is the load balancer in relation to the users, the Windows servers and the Oracle database? Is it between the users and the Windows servers? Or, is it between the Windows servers and the Oracle database? Is the database on a single server? Or, is the database clustered onto multiple machines?
Also, is this a purchased application that may come with some server and/or hardware recommendations? Or, is this a custom application that you are building from scratch? Do you have some current data to work with like: number of user connections, numbers of transactions or queries per hour or per day, etc.? Or, is this a new system that you are estimating load on?
Also, is this a purchased application that may come with some server and/or hardware recommendations? Or, is this a custom application that you are building from scratch? Do you have some current data to work with like: number of user connections, numbers of transactions or queries per hour or per day, etc.? Or, is this a new system that you are estimating load on?
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Am sorry my bad the application was handed over to me yesterday. So here are the details and statistics
There is no load balancer as of now
The application is currently having one active server and one passive server each running the same set of windows services in batch/scheduled mode.
The services read records from the oracle DB and then process the records and the update the DB accordingly.
Currently as of now, the application gets around 30,000 records to be processed which takes around 2 hrs to process.
Now we want to improve the performance of the same. We found the CPU of the current server is nearly maxed out and hence we were thinking of couple of new servers. Hence we are thinking is there any way to balance the load for these batch service based on the number of records to be processed ?
There is no load balancer as of now
The application is currently having one active server and one passive server each running the same set of windows services in batch/scheduled mode.
The services read records from the oracle DB and then process the records and the update the DB accordingly.
Currently as of now, the application gets around 30,000 records to be processed which takes around 2 hrs to process.
Now we want to improve the performance of the same. We found the CPU of the current server is nearly maxed out and hence we were thinking of couple of new servers. Hence we are thinking is there any way to balance the load for these batch service based on the number of records to be processed ?
Are your Windows servers separate from the Oracle database server(s)? Or, is the Oracle database also on the Windows servers?
What kind of processing of these records do the application servers do? Is it possible to move that processing to PL\SQL (or possibly Java) procedures inside the database instead?
What kind of processing of these records do the application servers do? Is it possible to move that processing to PL\SQL (or possibly Java) procedures inside the database instead?
Is the current server physically maxed out, one cannot add CPU, RAM, etc.? Cheaper than adding more servers. How many processors? Are the processes running with PARALLEL enabled and tuned?
What is the SPECIFIC data flow? Does record processing mean simple ETL such as datapump or bulk inserts, or more like specific data manipulation and computation.
Is the system and the database tuned? Are the cost-based optimizer (CBO) statistics kept up to date after each load cycle?
What is the SPECIFIC data flow? Does record processing mean simple ETL such as datapump or bulk inserts, or more like specific data manipulation and computation.
Is the system and the database tuned? Are the cost-based optimizer (CBO) statistics kept up to date after each load cycle?
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If you have the Oracle server going to the load balancer to the servers it will connect to 1 (one) server only