Quarterly Security Patch (CPU07JAN) Install takes over 4 hours

Has anyone else found the quarterly security patch installation times to be unreasonable? Just finished rolling out Jan 07's CPU and it took 4.5 hours for one box. This was on a Sun E4500 w 4 CPUs and 8 GB ram patching Enterprise Edition 10.1.0.4. Patching Standard edition on a smaller box takes less than 2 hours. The only downtime these databases have is for the quarterly patches, and to have the systems down for this long once a quarter is unreasonable. I opened a service request with Oracle, but they danced around the issue saying patch times really depend on the system and environment. Most of the time spent while running opatch is in 'ar' while rolling back the previous patch or patching archive files. The system load is very low during this time so its not a resource constraint. No other processes are running during the patches. This issue has been consistent with each set of quarterly patches, and it seems to get a little slower every quarter. Any insight would be appreciated. Suggesting RAC is not an acceptable solution.

This is a well known issue by now. I think Oracle is trying to do something in this regard. The reason it takes long time is the "ar" command as you just said, but here Oracle has less choices, the "ar" archives one .o at a time and when there are so many .o's to be changed it takes so much time, because "ar" is not very quick, esp on Sun platforms.

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