Memory Management

As explained in the previous section, you are now able to identify performance issues that affect the system in general and specific problems in transactions or programs.

When examining the response time of your system and identifying that the load and generation time is excessive, it is likely that there may be problems related to memory management and buffer utilization. This may be caused by wrong parameter settings or a wrong configuration in an instance.

In this section, our goal is to identify those problems related to memory management and buffer configuration in a SAP system.

The Memory Areas in a SAP System

In a SAP system there are a series of buffers and memory areas that can be configured via parameter settings ...

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