July 2020 Quarterly Patch for grid (18c linux) taking over 3 hours to update TFA
We use ASM and HAS for our DBs on Linux which makes patching usually relatively simple and painless. But this last patch, for both 18c and 19c, went crazy on some of the servers. What normally only took about 15 minutes to patch grid & db software as well as datapatch the db took 3.5 hours. We've been using this method of patching (opatchauto as root) since we moved to linux and, until this quarter, the process and results have been very similar from quarter to quarter. We opened an SR, but they have not been terribly helpful in helping