Applying Patches Best Practise

I have started using pca to patch as although I have not found a definitive answer, the built in patch mangler appears to not work unless you have a contract # in 10u7. I am curious to know if its wise to drop into maint mode to actually apply them, i always download them before hand (-d).
I noticed when applying a patch cluster if your in maint mode it applies way faster than not?
Thanks!

I have not applied a Solaris patch in single user mode in many many years. This doesn't mean that you won't have problems, though :-) And most of my experience has been with SPARC.
I try to wait until the system is quiescent as possible. I will shut disk intensive things like Oracle down, since a reboot is usually required after a big load of patches.
Aside from file system corruption, the worst thing that can happen is that an app that starts up during the patch process will bomb off because you are upgrading some library or another and the libraries are in an inconsistent state.

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