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By: Sören Schmidt

March 22, 2024 2:24 pm

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saptune 3.1.2 – Bugfixing and Note Updates

This month we released a maintenance update for saptune: 3.1.2 I was asked by to write s a short blog post about the changes. Here it is! Reducing the lock scope To avoid several saptune processes to run simultaneously and creating a mess, saptune always set a lock on start. Only one saptune […]

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By: Sören Schmidt

December 14, 2023 4:46 pm

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saptune 3.1.1 – Do I Need to Update?

This week an update of saptune has reached the repositories and the immanent question is: Do I have to update to 3.1.1? As you know, the general answer for that kind of question is always "yes", but lets have a closer look. An increment at the third part of the version number […]

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By: Sören Schmidt

October 2, 2023 11:03 am

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saptune 3.1 is out

Last week saptune 3.1 was made available in all official repositories for: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP5 (saptune-3.1.0-4.15.1) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP1 (saptune-3.1.0-150100.8.27.1) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 SP2 (saptune-3.1.0-150100.8.[…]

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By: Meike Chabowski

July 17, 2023 1:43 pm

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New tuning guide: Optimizing Linux for AMD EPYC™ 9004 Series Processors

EPYC is AMD’s flagship mainstream server microprocessors and supports 1-way and 2-way multiprocessing. The first generation was originally announced back in May 2017: At time being, it replaced the previous Opteron server family with the introduction of the Zen microarchitecture for the mainstream market. 4nd Generation AMD EPYC™ Processors With the fourth iteration of […]

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By: Sören Schmidt

August 12, 2022 7:17 am

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Help! Saptune says, my system is degraded!

Recently we got again questions about the system state in the output of saptune status, so it's time to talk about it. If everything is fine, you should get an output like this: # saptune status ... system state: running ... But, if not, then you will get: # saptune status ... system state: degraded ... A degraded system […]

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By: Sören Schmidt

September 28, 2021 3:16 pm

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saptune 3 Is on the Horizon

For quite some time we haven't released a new version of saptune. That didn't mean that development has stopped. Far from it! The last months have been busy to finalize the upcoming version 3, which brings new features customers and partners requested. It is currently in our QA and will be available in a few […]

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By: Sören Schmidt

August 3, 2020 1:12 pm

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sapconf versus saptune – again

After the blog post about 'sapconf 5' a few hours ago, I was asked by various people: Shall we use 'sapconf 5' instead of 'saptune 2'? Before rumors or confusion spread, let me clarify. In short: If you have 'SUSE Linux Enterprise Server' only 'sapconf' is available. If you have 'SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for […]

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By: Sören Schmidt

July 22, 2019 3:20 pm

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A new saptune is here!

A few weeks ago I announced the new saptune version 2: A new saptune is knocking on your door The time of waiting is over! If you now run a zypper search -s saptune, you will find the saptune version 2 in the repositories of "SLES for SAP Applications 12 SP2-4/15/15 SP1". Because we […]

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By: Sören Schmidt

July 22, 2019 3:19 pm

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saptune – a deep dive

Saptune version 2 has been released a few days ago and as promised, I start my technical blog post series. Over the next few weeks I will add the links to the articles here. Let me answer the most important questions you might have first: What shall I do? Update now or wait? To answer […]

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