SAP ASE 16 installation very very slow on a laptop

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I have two laptops. One is UEFI boot. One is MBR boot. They both have Linux 7.5 installed: CentOS, Oracle Linux 7.5. They are the same as Red Hat Linux 7.5.

Installation of SAP ASE 16 on Dell E6510 MBR boot takes less than one hour.

Installation of SAP ASE 16 on Dell Inspiron 5720 UEFI boot has been running for 20 hours, very slowly go through installation of /app/sap/charsets. I watch it goes from 36 to 44 for one hour. By comparison with MBR laptop, there 88 of them under /app/sap/charsets directory. This will take two one more day to finish.

Why is it running such slow?

[victoria_normand · Accepted solution]

Hi David,

ASE is not really certified for derived kernels like CentOS (you may refer to the Certification Report mentioned on SAP Note 1941500 - Certification information for Linux and other Operating Systems - SAP ASE). But anyway strange situation since the OS version is the same on both machines, and no problem in one of them, it seems to be linked more likely to the hardware than the ASE itself. Some suggestion: monitor from OS side resources usage like CPU, memory, disk I/Os ; try with another ASE 16 package level to discard ASE issue (not sure which is the one you are trying to install).

About your last comment: ASE installation logs are located at $SYBASE/log. You may check the installation guide here.

Best regards,

Victoria.