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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

May 6, 2021 3:20 pm

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sapconf 5.0.2 – Now with check tool…

I admit, that the title sounds a bit like a commercial and maybe in a way it is. All supported Service Packs have received the latest sapconf package (5.0.2). It contains some minor bugfixes, but the reason for this blog post is the the newly added check tool. In the past one reason […]

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By: Meike Chabowski

March 18, 2021 10:15 pm

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“March to Milan”: New performance tuning guide for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server on AMD EPYC* 7003 Series processors

On March 15th, AMD released their next generation AMD EPYC™ 7003 Series of processors, known under the code name "Milan" during the development phase. The new processors provide outstanding performance across a wide spectrum of industry standard applications. Whether on bare metal or Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI), they power solutions in the Cloud, […]

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By: Marco Varlese

March 18, 2021 1:30 pm

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Phoeβe, where AI meets Linux

Phoeβe (/ˈfiːbi/) wants to add basic artificial intelligence capabilities to the Linux OS. System-level tuning is a very complex activity, requiring the knowledge and expertise of several, if not all, layers which compose the system itself and how they interact with each other. Quite often, it is required to also have an intimate knowledge […]

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