DBMS connection speed: Session vs Entity

Question

Environment: WLS6.1 SP3, W2K, Oracle 8.1.7, OCI Driver
Hi,
we are experiencing performance problem when getting a connection from a
pool.
Getting a connection from a stateless session bean takes 300-500ms whereas
it takes 15ms
from an entity bean (local). Both session and entity beans are deployed in
the same ear.
In both cases we're getting the datasource using the following code snippet
Properties p = new Properties();
bla bla bla ...
Context ic = new InitialContext(p);
DataSource ds = (DataSource) ic.lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/XXX");
and
DataSource ds = (DataSource) ic.lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/YYY");
When getting the connection, we are experiencing the speed difference
described above.
connection conn = ds.getConnection();
Why do we have this difference? We have the reference to the datasource
already.
There is no further JNDI lookup. Is there something we are missing?
Thanks
Arnaud
Entity descriptor
<resource-ref>
<res-ref-name>jdbc/XXX</res-ref-name>
<res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
<res-auth>Application</res-auth>
</resource-ref>
WLS specific
<reference-descriptor>
<resource-description>
<res-ref-name>jdbc/XXX</res-ref-name>
<jndi-name>jdbc/MyDataSource</jndi-name>
</resource-description>
</reference-descriptor>
Session descriptor
<resource-ref>
<res-ref-name>jdbc/YYY</res-ref-name>
<res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
<res-auth>Application</res-auth>
</resource-ref>
WLS specific
<reference-descriptor>
<resource-description>
<res-ref-name>jdbc/YYY</res-ref-name>
<jndi-name>jdbc/MyDataSource</jndi-name>
</resource-description>
<ejb-local-reference-description>
<ejb-ref-name>ejb/XXX</ejb-ref-name>
<jndi-name>ejb/XXXLocal</jndi-name>
</ejb-local-reference-description>
</reference-descriptor>

Answer 1

Hi Arnaud,
"Arnaud Benjacar" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
<JDBCConnectionPool DriverName="oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver"
InitialCapacity="5" MaxCapacity="10" Name="myPool"
Properties="user=M594;password=M594;dll=ocijdbc8;protocol=oci8"
Targets="ilimdev" URL="jdbc:oracle:oci8:@ilimdev"/>
<JDBCTxDataSource JNDIName="jdbc/MyDataSource"
Name="My Tx Data Source" PoolName="myPool" Targets="ilimdev"/>This configuration is far from the best performing one. I suggest you
to change it to:
<JDBCConnectionPool DriverName="oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver"
Properties="user=M594;password=M594;dll=ocijdbc8;protocol=oci8"
InitialCapacity="20" MaxCapacity="20" Name="myPool"
LoginDelaySeconds="1" RefreshMinutes="99999"
ShrinkPeriodMinutes="5" ShrinkingEnabled="false"
TestConnectionsOnReserve="true" TestConnectionsOnRelease="false"
TestTableName="DUAL"
Targets="ilimdev" URL="jdbc:oracle:oci8:@ilimdev"/>
This configuration will perform better and will not spend time recreating
connections and will require less synchronized operations inside the
pool.
BTW, in your code sample you look up two datasources. Are they bound
to different pools?
Regards,
Slava Imeshev
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"Slava Imeshev" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Hi Arnaud,
Could you post an extract from config.xml in part of the connection
pools and datasources? I'm asking because the configuration
you have may be not tailored to best performance.
Regards,
Slava Imeshev
"Arnaud Benjacar" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Environment: WLS6.1 SP3, W2K, Oracle 8.1.7, OCI Driver
Hi,
we are experiencing performance problem when getting a connection from a
pool.
Getting a connection from a stateless session bean takes 300-500mswhereas
it takes 15ms
from an entity bean (local). Both session and entity beans are deployedin
the same ear.
In both cases we're getting the datasource using the following codesnippet
Properties p = new Properties();
bla bla bla ...
Context ic = new InitialContext(p);
DataSource ds = (DataSource) ic.lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/XXX");
and
DataSource ds = (DataSource) ic.lookup("java:comp/env/jdbc/YYY");
When getting the connection, we are experiencing the speed difference
described above.
connection conn = ds.getConnection();
Why do we have this difference? We have the reference to the datasource
already.
There is no further JNDI lookup. Is there something we are missing?
Thanks
Arnaud
Entity descriptor
<resource-ref>
<res-ref-name>jdbc/XXX</res-ref-name>
<res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
<res-auth>Application</res-auth>
</resource-ref>
WLS specific
<reference-descriptor>
<resource-description>
<res-ref-name>jdbc/XXX</res-ref-name>
<jndi-name>jdbc/MyDataSource</jndi-name>
</resource-description>
</reference-descriptor>
Session descriptor
<resource-ref>
<res-ref-name>jdbc/YYY</res-ref-name>
<res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
<res-auth>Application</res-auth>
</resource-ref>
WLS specific
<reference-descriptor>
<resource-description>
<res-ref-name>jdbc/YYY</res-ref-name>
<jndi-name>jdbc/MyDataSource</jndi-name>
</resource-description>
<ejb-local-reference-description>
<ejb-ref-name>ejb/XXX</ejb-ref-name>
<jndi-name>ejb/XXXLocal</jndi-name>
</ejb-local-reference-description>
</reference-descriptor>