[sqr-users] Performance difference v3 vs v9

[Luc Van der Veurst <lucv@uzbrussel.be>]

Hello,

We are still running sqr version V3.0.7.0.1 :-).

Since re-investigating in what report generation tool we
will use in the future will be on next year's budget,
we wondered if our sqr code would sitll run under v9.

Therefore, we installed version 9.3.0.1.0.836.

Our reports still work, so that was the good news, but
version 9 is much slower than version 3.

A report that runs with v3 in 0.07s seconds takes 10.81s
in v9. The report just selects one column from one tuple
in the database.

We see this difference in all our reports: they take
about 10 seconds more to run.

Our environment :

OS : Soralis 8
DB : Sybase ASE 12.5.3

Hyperion says that the difference is due to the fact that
v3 uses dblib while v9 uses ctlib.
I find this hard to believe, we have other dblib and ctlib
programs to compare.

What I did notice is that sybase's libraries are linked
statically into sqr v3 while there are more libraries dynamically
loaded in v9 :

v3 :

$ ldd /local/sybase/workbench_30/bin/sqr
        libnsl.so.1 =>   /lib/libnsl.so.1
        libc.so.1 =>     /lib/libc.so.1
        libdl.so.1 =>    /lib/libdl.so.1
        libmp.so.2 =>    /lib/libmp.so.2
        /usr/platform/SUNW,Ultra-4/lib/libc_psr.so.1

v9 :

$ ldd /local/sybase/Hyperion/BIPlus/bin/SQR/Server/Sybase/bin/sqr
        libbtunicode.so =>       
/local/sybase/Hyperion/BIPlus/bin/SQR/Server/Sybase/lib/libbtunicode.so
        libCrun.so.1 =>  /lib/libCrun.so.1
        libC.so.5 =>     /lib/libC.so.5
        libsocket.so.1 =>        /lib/libsocket.so.1
        libnsl.so.1 =>   /lib/libnsl.so.1
        libct.so =>      /local/sybase/sdk125/clt/lib/libct.so
        libcs.so =>      /local/sybase/sdk125/clt/lib/libcs.so
        libtcl.so =>     /local/sybase/sdk125/clt/lib/libtcl.so
        libcomn.so =>    /local/sybase/sdk125/clt/lib/libcomn.so
        libintl.so =>    /local/sybase/sdk125/clt/lib/libintl.so
        libm.so.1 =>     /lib/libm.so.1
        libdl.so.1 =>    /lib/libdl.so.1
        libc.so.1 =>     /lib/libc.so.1
        libthread.so.1 =>        /lib/libthread.so.1
        libmp.so.2 =>    /lib/libmp.so.2
        /usr/platform/SUNW,Ultra-4/lib/libc_psr.so.1
$ 


1. Does anyone had similar experiences with performance after an
   upgrade ?
   
2. Does anyone has relinked ldd so that more libraries are statically 
   linked ?
   
Thanks,
Luc.


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