Oracle 10g Application Server on VMWare
We have a physical 10g application server with forms and reports connecting to an Oracle 11g database. The physical server works fine, but we are trying to virtualize all our application servers and we have a performance issue when we virtualize this server.
Doing a side by side comparison we have a form that retrieves a number of records and we can use the arrow keys to scroll through these records. When pressing the down arrow on the physical server around 20 times the cursor will scroll through the records without any hesitation. Doing the same thing on the virtual server we notice a noticeable pause every few records. It may be between 3 or 5 records or so but it continues to happen. Also if you hold the down arrow on the physical server it will scroll through very quickly and retrieve