[pca] Kernel Patch 142909-17

[Diana Orrick]

  Thanks for the suggestions everyone, will supply more info when time 
allows.
Still working on the cluster...

On 10/9/2010 6:18 PM, Rajiv Gunja wrote:
>
> You might want to compare the times it took for other patches so that 
> you know if it will take longer that 13*11*x minutes whet x is some 
> random number which it seems to take for patching zones. If the server 
> is ok to run for more time let it run. It took my server 7 hours to 
> patch 200 patches on a server with 3 zones. Sine you have 13 zones it 
> might take longer.
> -GGR
>
>> On Oct 9, 2010 12:17 PM, "Martin Paul" <martin at par.univie.ac.at 
>> <mailto:martin at par.univie.ac.at>> wrote:
>>
>> Diana Orrick schrieb:
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Any suggestions on how to determine if the patching is progressing 
>> at all?
>>
>> I guess you could use "truss -f -p <PID>" on the PID of the 
>> "patchadd" process to see what's going on.
>>
>> If you have to interrupt the patch installation process, the only 
>> "good" thing is that PCA is using plain patchadd for the patch 
>> install, so there's no extra uncertainty added by the fact that you 
>> are using PCA. On the other hand I don't have much practical 
>> experience about how "patchadd" reacts to Ctrl-C. I think that it 
>> should be pretty save to remove the partly installed patch with 
>> "patchrm" afterwards without causing any ill effects.
>>
>> Martin.
>>
>>

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