Recommended update for sapconf

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2017:1017-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for the Raspberry Pi 12-SP2

An update that has two fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update provides sapconf 4.1.7, which provides the following fixes:

  • SAP HANA performs better with "force_latency=70" in its tuning profile, so the setting is now introduced to the profile. (bsc#1032516)
  • sapconf's sap-hana tuning profile incorrectly used "noop" IO scheduler on disk block devices, which is not explicitly recommended by either SUSE or SAP. Performance regression showed up during benchmark runs. Hence, the IO scheduler setting is removed from tuning profile, and left to be decided by end-user. (bsc#1031073)

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for the Raspberry Pi 12-SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-RPI-12-SP2-2017-593=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2017-593=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2017-593=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2017-593=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for the Raspberry Pi 12-SP2 (noarch)
    • sapconf-4.1.7-31.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP2 (noarch)
    • sapconf-4.1.7-31.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 (noarch)
    • sapconf-4.1.7-31.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 (noarch)
    • sapconf-4.1.7-31.1

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