Installation ABAP import phase problem

[Former Member]

Dear Friends,

I am installing ABAP application server within Netweaver 7.02 which has been downloaded from this site on my LAPTOP.

Phases 1 -15 took about 2 hrs to install.

After that it entered Phase 16 i.e Import ABAP and it has gone on for more that 12 hrs.

Of the 37 processes in this phase the last 2 doesn't complete. One is shown as running and other is waiting.

My Laptop has around 320GB HDD(100 GB free) 4 GB RAM of which only 3GB is usable as it as 32 bit OS,2.4 GHZ Core 2 Duo

processor and Windows Vista.

I think it is abnormal to continue for so long.

It does not show any error message nor any problem in the log.

What is the problem?

Pls advise.

Thamk for your efforts.

[sunny_pahuja2]

Hi,

Speed of this phase depends on number of things:

1) How many number of parallel jobs you have selected in sapinst ?

2) 4 GB of RAM is not much. So, it will take time.

Thanks

Sunny

[Former Member]

Hi Sunny,

"Speed of this phase depends on number of things:

1) How many number of parallel jobs you have selected in sapinst ?

2) 4 GB of RAM is not much. So, it will take time."

1)How do I check the number of parallel jobs?

I think only one job is running because in the taskbar for the Installer it shows:

Import job Monitor: Running 1, Waiting 1, Failed 0, Completed 35, Total 37

The phase is Import ABAP and it has several jobs i.e threads of which only one is running.

2) Of the 4 Gb RAM only 3 GB is usable by Windows as it is 32 bit.Now of this Memory utilization is 65- 70%.

CPU utilization is 10-15%.

Since resource utilization is very less it is taking enormous amount of time.

As per documentation installation on a Laptop should not take more than 8 hrs but it has taken double the time i.e 16 hrs.

How much more time will it take?

Is there any way to speed it up ?

Thanks.

[nirmal_konchada]

You will have to just wait and watch

Nirmal.K

[Former Member]

Hello

looking at above configuration ,more than 1 parallel process would have helped to speed this up

This R3load process can be set when you input on SAPINST

Generally this calculation is done as no of CPU2 -1 or no of CPU2--2 as a raw thumb rule

Now in your case anyway only 2 jobs are more 2 go so wait and watch is only option available

success!!

[Former Member]

Hi,

As per the installation instructions it should take around 8 hrs.

Why is it taking much more than that?

There can be 2 reasons:

1) Either estimate given is wrong.

or

2) Something wrong in my machine.

If the reason is 1 then what is the correct estimate?

If the reason is 2 then how to find out the problem area?

Thanks.

[Former Member]

check whether the logs are updating in installation folder or not. if not stop the installation and restart it.

[Former Member]

I agree with mahendra ... it is the best way to restart the installation if logs are not getting updated.

There must be an external factors are reason for this issue, your laptop must be corrupted with virus or it might have hung due

to temporary memory bottle neck ...