Oracle Connect via OCI8 Client 12.1 takes so long for first request

[ChrisFeldmeier]

Oracle Connect via OCI8 Client 12.1 takes so long for first request
Can something be tuned or why is it soooo slow? Reponse time 6 seconds for a simple table with 5 rows???

php.exe --ri oci8
OCI8 Support => enabled
OCI8 DTrace Support => disabled
OCI8 Version => 2.0.10
Revision => $Id: 8effa3c719ada4f4f79587ac85aca57b3b9f9b38 $
Oracle Run-time Client Library Version => 12.1.0.1.0
Oracle Compile-time Instant Client Version => 12.1

Directive => Local Value => Master Value
oci8.max_persistent => -1 => -1
oci8.persistent_timeout => -1 => -1
oci8.ping_interval => 60 => 60
oci8.privileged_connect => Off => Off
oci8.statement_cache_size => 20 => 20
oci8.default_prefetch => 100 => 100
oci8.old_oci_close_semantics => Off => Off
oci8.connection_class => DREAMFACTORY_STAGE => DREAMFACTORY_STAGE
oci8.events => Off => Off

Statistics =>
Active Persistent Connections => 0
Active Connections => 0

[drewpearce]

Have you tried in the latest version of DF? There were performance enhancements made in the 2.2 release.

Is this DF caching the schema? The first request can be slow if there are a bunch of tables