Displaying Allocated Memory

ST02 - Detail Analysis Menu - Storage

Field	Explanation
STORAGE SHARED BETWEEN WORK PROCESSES	The value for the ALLOCATED column in the TOTAL row shows the total memory allocated to the SAP buffers. (For UNIX operating systems, this section also displays the values for the allocated, used, and free memory space for each shared memory pool.)
USER STORAGE FOR ALL WORK PROCESSES	The size of the memory allocated for the SAP work processes.
SIZE OF EXTENDED MEMORY	The size of the memory allocated to the SAP extended memory.
VIRTUAL MEMORY ALLOCATED	The size of the total memory al located at instance startup to the SAP buffer, SAP work processes, and extended memory. This is the critical value for assessing whether main memory bottlenecks are likely to occur.
MAXIMUM HEAP AREA FOR ALL WORK PROCESSES	The size of the SAP heap memory that can be allocated as local memory by the SAP work processes, if required. This value corresponds to the parameter ABAP/HEAP AREA_TOTAL.

To ensure that the total memory allocated by SAP is not significantly disproportionate to the physically available main memory, compare allocated and physical memory. Begin by calculating the allocated memory, as follows:

->Find the amount of memory allocated by an SAP instance since startup. This value is indicated as VIRTUAL MEMORY ALLOCATED. If there are multiple instances on the computer, the values for all the SAP instances are added.

->If the instance is on the same computer as the database, add the memory requirement of the database. To find out the database memory requirement, see the database performance monitor (Transaction ST04).

->Add about 50-100 MB for the main memory requirements of the operating system.