unzipping or copying sleep stat in top while doing oracle install

[UVA]

HI,

We have RX3600 server with 1*dual core cpu, 8gb of Memory. We are installing oracle application in this machine, Now the issue is while doing unziping or copying its taking more time and in the top command shows unzip sleep stat, copying also sometimes shows run stat and sleep stat.

But almost 90% of the cpu is idle and 7gb of memory is free.
Pls advice in this regard.

[Dennis Handly]

This likely means you are waiting for I/O.
Are you reading from a DVD? See this thread:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1407491

[UVA]

Yes we are doing the installation from DVD.

may i know why the unzip is sleep stat

" 2 pts/0 7823 oracrp 128 20 10328K 2028K sleep 0:17 0.98 0.98 unzip "

[Dennis Handly]

>may I know why the unzip is sleep stat

If you read the other thread, reading from the DVD is very slow if not using the latest version for USB drives.

[AVV]

How do we check the driver version of USB devices , Please advice

[Jupinder Bedi]

Ajesh ,

Please open the new thread for this .

[Michael Steele_2 · Accepted solution]

It has nothing to do with Memory or RAM. It has to do with the I/O bus and disk.

You're reading zipped files from your DVD and writing them to disk, and then unzipping these files and writing them to disk again.

You've been asked three times to present a 'sar -d 5 5 / sar -d 2 5' report. If you'd read the man page on sar's -d option this should be clear to you.

Also a zipped file is a compressed file, at minimun 1 to 2, maybe 1 to 20, I don't know. You should understand this also.

You've also been asked to contact Oracle. Have you even gone to their forums and asked?

http://forums.oracle.com/forums/main.jspa;jsessionid=8d92079330d6742f05edfdc74d99949ef364ab4ddbfd.e38QbNuQbx8Kbi0LbhaMaxuLax50?categoryID=84

[Michael Steele_2]

Hi

Please provide your 'ioscan -funC disk' to find your dvd driver

[WayneHP]

Download the install media from oracle and installing from it is well worth your time and effort vs the DVD.

or copy the DVD to a local disk other than where you will install to, then install.

That way you can walk away and do something else during the slow copy, like read some documentation