I'm trying to use perl to help simulate a large number of users accessing an oracle database. The problem I'm running into is during the forking process. I want each db connection to handle a number of SQL commands simultaneously with the others.

I have a package I created which contains a function I wrote for fork, which for forking one instance works fine. I call that method from my script with a for loop wrapped around it to create the number of connections I want to use on the database.

If I use dbi->connect inside the child of the fork, it appears that all the children end up sharing the same DBH. If I create the dbh before the fork and pass it to the child I get strange errors like:

DBD::Oracle::db DESTROY failed: ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel (DBD ERROR: OCISessionEnd)

Is there anyone out there who has tried this scenario before and solved it, or who might have some tips on how best to approach this task?

In reply to Using fork with DBI to create simultaneous db connections. by altern8

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