Functional load balancing in oracle RAC

Hi all,
Could anyone suggest how to setup functional load balancing in oracle RAC? Will there be any performance improvement in doing so? I implemented server side load balancing and the performance of INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE are very poor. Will functional load balancing be of any use? Please tell me the steps of how to implement functional load balancing?
Regards,
Aravind
Edited by: Aravind K R on Jul 12, 2011 2:49 PM

Aravind K R wrote:
Hi all,
Could anyone sujjest how to setup functional load balancing in oracle RAC? Will there be any performance improvement in doing so? I implemented server side load balancing and the performance of INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE are very poor. Will functional load balancing be of any use? Please tell me the steps of how to implement functional load balancing?
Regards,
Aravind
Hi,
Load balancing will not necessary increase performance, it just distribute the load more evenly.
Is the DML statement only slow in specific instance?
To prove if there is problem with load balancing, have you tried connect to one instance and perform same DML statement? compare the result
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