Re: Parallel query on when it's not supposed to be (?)

  • From: Janine A Sisk <janine@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: mrichard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 22:18:30 -0400

On Sep 14, 2004, at 10:03 PM, Mark Richard wrote:

> I can't help but wonder if waiting for a
> parallel query is still the quickest way to get things done?  Would 
> killing
> the parallel query effectively move the waits to another category 
> without
> achieving any real gain?

Mark, what you say makes sense except that I've read that parallel 
query was very buggy in 8.1.7.4.  My own experience bears this out.  A 
previous version of this application on a different server, but with 
the same version of Oracle, had parallel_automatic_tuning turned on.  
Performance was awful.  I found a reference somewhere, I can't recall 
where anymore, claiming that parallel processing on this version was 
likely to hurt performance so we turned it off and things improved 
dramatically.

I'm sure this is a per-application thing, but that has been my 
experience.  it probably does not apply to more modern versions of 
Oracle.

janine

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