Comments on: The price of popularity

By: MGC

MGC — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:04:35 +0000

It sure isn’t my idea of quick

Can’t they at least setup OSSO to use permanent cookies so that we don’t have to sign in all the time?

By: Dave Best

Dave Best — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:02:27 +0000

I’ve posted a few questions to the forum and hit it at different points during the day.. I haven’t experienced any performance issues.

By: Howard Rogers

Howard Rogers — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:09:59 +0000

I can’t even log in, so 98 seconds is a good deal better than I’m getting! Count your blessings!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:04:54 +0000

Don’t have such a slow response either (accessing it currently from europe).

By: Paul Moore

Paul Moore — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 11:07:42 +0000

I don't have such slow responses. However, I do find the repeated need to login annoying - it would be nice to have some sort of cookie-based "Remember me" option.

Also, I have a bookmark for the XE forum. When I use it, but am not already logged in, I get redirected to the login screen. Then, when I log in, I get sent to the main forums page, rather than to the XE forum that I was aiming for. Not a crisis, but definitely annoying.

I do find that the Oracle forums aren't as user-friendly as many web-based forums out there. This is a shame when XE support is forum-based.

Paul

By: Thomas Kyte

Thomas Kyte — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:57:38 +0000

Niall,

I've been logging in and out frequently myself. I've never had it take long to get in or out of the forum. Is this a widespread problem encountered by others?

By: thierry

thierry — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:52:34 +0000

well, not sure if it is popularity, or j2ee that shows scaling hick ups.

By: APC

APC — Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:17:01 +0000

>> The average length of time from hitting go on the username/password screen to seeing the forum is 98 seconds.

Niall. The secret is to log in first thing in the morining (whilst most of America i still asleep) and just keep a session open for the whole of the day. I find Firefox is a lot better for this than IE was.

Still, you'd think Oracle would regard the forums as an advertisemnet for the scalability and reliability of Oracle products. But apparently not.

Cheers, APC