Interconnect speed on dbconsole

Question

Hi,
We are seeing Private Interconnect Transfer Rate (MB/Sec)     betwee 0.45 MB/Sec to 0.023 MB/Sec. This we are seeing on DB Console. (DB Console -> Cluster -> Interconnects )
can it be due to less load on system or the interconnect it self is slow?
Is there a way to load test interconnect?
This is 11.2.0.3 ON AIX 7.1, paired gigabit ethernet as private interconnect.
For both nodes following gives abt 2 ms for AVG CR BLOCK RECEIVE TIME (ms)
select b1.inst_id, b2.value "GCS CR BLOCKS RECEIVED",
b1.value "GCS CR BLOCK RECEIVE TIME",
((b1.value / b2.value) * 10) "AVG CR BLOCK RECEIVE TIME (ms)"
from gv$sysstat b1, gv$sysstat b2
where b1.name = 'global cache cr block receive time' and
b2.name = 'global cache cr blocks received' and b1.inst_id = b2.inst_id
or b1.name = 'gc cr block receive time' and
b2.name = 'gc cr blocks received' and b1.inst_id = b2.inst_id
/Also please see following
/home/oracle> hostname
Hostname for Node1
/home/oracle> netstat -p udp
udp:
        148643921 datagrams received
        0 incomplete headers
        0 bad data length fields
        0 bad checksums
        63270 dropped due to no socket
        30286 broadcast/multicast datagrams dropped due to no socket
        0 socket buffer overflows
        148550365 delivered
        146920807 datagrams output
/home/oracle> hostname
Hostname for Node 2
/home/oracle> netstat -p udp
udp:
        74069717 datagrams received
        0 incomplete headers
        0 bad data length fields
        0 bad checksums
        36390 dropped due to no socket
        4852 broadcast/multicast datagrams dropped due to no socket
        0 socket buffer overflows
        74028475 delivered
        75133092 datagrams output
/home/oracle>

Answer 1

The approach I would take is to ask "do you actually have a problem?" No end user has ever telephoned the help desk to say "the interconnect transfer rate is too low". If they aren't complaining, there is no problem.
That having been said, I've just looked at the avg global cache CR receive time on three systems, and your 2ms is not brilliant but is in the range:
0.8
1.2
2.6
John Watson
Oracle Certified Master DBA
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