GMS is performaing poorly on SLES 12 or SLES 15

  • 7018074
  • 19-Sep-2016
  • 08-May-2019

Environment

Novell GroupWise Mobility Service 2014.2.1
GroupWise Mobility Service 18
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 Service Pack 1 (SLES 12 SP1)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 Service Pack 2 (SLES 12 SP2)
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 Service Pack 3 (SLES 12 SP3)

Situation

GroupWise Mobility CPU utilization is high
Mobility having performance issues on SLES 12 or SLES15
Mobility running slowly on a BTRFS formatted disk

Resolution

It is recommended that a file system other than BTRFS (the default file-system) is used during the SLES 12 or SLES15 installation

Cause

Postgresql has potential performance issues when running on a BTRFS formatted disk

Additional Information

If needed, the steps to create a new partition and move GMS data can be found here