swinstall works very slow

[madhavabk]

Hi all,

Since i install 180 packages installation takes hours together. Is there any things which i can skip and make installation fast.

[Mahesh Kumar Malik]

Hi

Please check if there are any performance monitoring process are running. If yes, disable them during installation process.

Regards
Mahesh

[madhavabk]

Hello,

I could not get what is the answer.
Since swinstall will spend lots of amount of time in analysis phase, we need to avoid that.

So what all the ways to avoid these.

[V. Nyga]

Hi,

I don't believe, that you want to avoid the analysis phase.
There the system checks if the patch is for this system, if it is already installed, if there are dependencies for it, if there's enough space on disk.
If you don't do this, your system can become unbootable very soon.

Are you doing swinstall from cd or from remote system?

Volkmar

[Bill Hassell]

swinstall performs extensive checks to make sure that the packages or patches will work together, that they are installed in the right order and that required prerequisites are verified. There is no way to avoid the analysis phase.

However, atre you actually installing 180 different programs? Or are you installing 180 patches? For programs and patches, these can be puit together in a single depot using swcopy. Did you create the swinstall packages? The scripts inside the packages control what happens during the analysis, pre- and post- install phses.

[madhavabk]

Hi all,

Thanks for lots of inputs.

My requirement is i have individual depots for products not for patches.

And i cannot put them in one scipt since installation and other things i am doing in java based application.

Hence i will be installing only required deptos some time all.

Hence i would like to know any way to reduce time of installation.

[V. Nyga]

Hi again,

only some thoughts:
You can collect all your depots to one depot with swcopy.
Then you can choose these packages you want to install.

Are these products from OS (hp-ux) or are they other software?

Some software you can make a tar and copy it or you distribute it with NFS mounts so you only have to install it once.

HTH
Volkmar