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Mapping the client connections to a shared port on Wintel

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USE_SHARED_SOCKET
You can set parameter USE_SHARED_SOCKET to true to enable use of shared sockets. If this parameter is set to true, the network listener passes the socket descriptor for client connections to the database thread. As a result, the client does not need to establish a new connection to the database thread and database connection time improves. Also, all database connections share the port number used by the network listener, which can be useful if you are setting up third-party proxy servers.
This parameter only works in dedicated server mode in a TCP/IP environment.
If this parameter is set, you cannot use the 9.0 listener to spawn Oracle7 release 7.x databases.
To spawn a dedicated server for an Oracle database not associated with the same Oracle home as the listener and have shared socket enabled, you must also set parameter USE_SHARED_SOCKET for both Oracle homes.

USE_SHARED_SOCKET could be a performance bottleneck if you have more connections to the database. The load on using the same socket on Windows has been very weak with respect to performance.
So the answer would depend on how many simultaneous connections will hit the listener at a point of time.
I don’t have any benchmark values for this ( there was never a need for this ).
But we decided against the use of this with just 50 connections.

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