SD-UX Manage Patch Selection very slow on K-Class

[Tony Williams]

I have several HP9000s that are being loaded with the June 2001 SupportPlus GR patch distribution. The manage patch selection on our K580s consistently takes an hour, and on our V2200s it takes less than a minute.

All servers have 2GB of main memory, all have 64-bit 11.00, and all have PA-8200 200Mhz CPUs.

Does anyone know what makes the K580 so much slower than the V2200s, given there are so many similarities?

[linuxfan]

Hi Tony,

Do you already have the SD-UX cumulative patch PHCO_23966 installed? I would say install the patch and then try the manage-patch-selection option.

Also is measureware running on the machine?

-Regards
Ramesh

[Tony Williams]

Hi,

We don't have that patch on any of our servers including the V2200 which does not have a problem. Also, we are not aware that Measureware poses the same problem on 11.00 as it does on 10.20.

[linuxfan]

Hi Tony,

Quick question, has there been any modifications to the /var/adm/sw/defaults or in the ~/.swdefaults file?

-Ramesh

[Tony Williams]

No. The /var/adm/sw/defaults file has never been modified. The ~/.swdefaults file does not exist on our servers.

[David Lieberman_1]

Hi Tony,

I've seen this problem on some K-class servers (x70's and x80's) when installing large quantities of patches at one time. For whatever reason, I haven't seen it on K4xx, D, L, N, or V servers.

It appears to be attributable in part to something in the O.S. on the server (which we haven't found yet), and mostly to specific patches selected (parsed) during the Manage Patch Selection (or Mark for Installation) phase of the swinstall session.

Patching SD before installing patches has helped to reduce this problem in some cases here - but not all.

For the stubborn servers, ultimately our solution was to select fewer patches at a time and install them iteratively. Once this was done, the next time we had a large series of patches to install, we didn't have a reoccurrance of the problem.

A couple of issues:

Regardless of the whether or not the SD-UX patch is installed on the V, install it on the K. (by itself). If you call HP, I'll bet a dollar they'll start with this.

Also, I've seen problems with MeasureWare on 11.00, even though it was supposed to be limited to 10.20 and earler O.S.'s. Try issuing:

mwa stop
ps -ef|grep ttd
kill {ttd_pid}

before running the swinstall session.

mwa start when you're done, of course.

Probably not worth a "10", but I hope that this information is helpful to you.

Best of luck,

David Lieberman