Ah yes, sorry! Lost my mind there for a minute. Its Oracle 9.2.0.8 (latest security patch) on Windows 2003 Server. LISTENERS_xPC = (ADDRESS_LIST = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = XXX.XXX.XX.XX)(PORT = 1521)) (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = XXX.XXX.XX.XX)(PORT = 1521)) ) LISTENER_xPC1 = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = XXX.XXX.XX.XX)(PORT = 1521)) LISTENER_xPC2 = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = XXX.XXX.XX.XX)(PORT = 1521)) xPC = (DESCRIPTION = (LOAD_BALANCE = on) (FAILOVER = on) (ADDRESS_LIST = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = tcp)(HOST = XXX.XXX.XX.XX)(PORT = 1521)) (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = tcp)(HOST = XXX.XXX.XX.XX)(PORT = 1521)) ) (CONNECT_DATA = (SERVER = DEDICATED) (SERVICE_NAME = PC) (FAILOVER_MODE = (TYPE = session) (METHOD = basic) ) ) ) PC1 = (DESCRIPTION = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = XXX.XXX.XX.XX)(PORT = 1521)) (CONNECT_DATA = (SERVICE_NAME = pc) (INSTANCE_NAME = pc1) (SERVER=DEDICATED) ) ) PC2 = (DESCRIPTION = (ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = XXX.XXX.XX.XX)(PORT = 1521)) (CONNECT_DATA = (SERVICE_NAME = pc) (INSTANCE_NAME = pc2) ) ) _____ From: Bryan Thomas [mailto:bthomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 10:35 AM To: dofreeman@xxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Improper Load Balancing Don, Can you post your tnsnames file, oracle version, os version, client version, etc? This may help. Bryan Thomas Senior Consultant and Practice Manager Performance Tuning Corporation www.perftuning.com <http://www.perftuning.com/> _____ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Freeman, Donald Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 7:55 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Improper Load Balancing We are experiencing problems with the database connectivity from the production web servers for the last 2-3 weeks. We are using Oracle RAC in the production and there are 2 database servers. Somehow the connection goes to one database server intermittently, not all the time. But when it happens we see most of the connections going to the same Oracle node i.e. second node. We are using Windows load balancing on the web servers. Does anybody have any idea what might cause this? Don Freeman Database Administrator 1 Bureau of Information Technology Pennsylvania Department of Health (717) 703-5782