SAP Note 860714 - Linux reports "big time diff XXX for stamp YYY"

Component : Linux - Client-Server-Technologie

Solution : https://service.sap.com/sap/support/notes/860714 (SAP Service marketplace login required)

Summary :
SAP users may encounter warnings in the SAP Kernel log due to inaccurate timekeeping functions within the Linux Kernel, particularly on systems with high-speed processors like Intel XEON EM64T or AMD Opteron. These discrepancies are reported in activities such as STAT_READDIR, STAT_COMMIT, and STAT_READSEQ. SAP has addressed this issue in newer patch levels which utilize POSIX timers for accurate time measurements, as detailed in SAP note 87447. Users should update both their Linux operating system and SAP Kernel to at least the specified versions to resolve these issues, rather than adjusting SAP instance profile parameters which might diminish performance.

Key words :
stat/clock = gettimeofday stat/normal_clock = gettimeofday, linux kernel report wrong values, recent linux operating system, warning => big time diff 4046734214 [1806162072 1806082655], warning => big time diff 4046734370 [1001684369 1001605108], warning => big time diff 4046734425 [4213963925 4213884719], sap kernel log file, sap instance profile parameters, big time diff, warning messages report

Related Notes :

171356SAP software on Linux: General information
87447Clock for statistics and runtime measurements