This paper seems to have a likely explanation for a sudden performance hit when developers did a 10x number of calls to the database in an application (most calls return 0 rows). http://developers.sun.com/solaris/articles/oci_cache.html#4 Has anyone compiled this with gcc and used it? I'm slogging through rewriting the c64.sh script to get it going but if anyone else has done it already I'd be happy to take a shortcut.... ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------