2374915 - "Number of open objects" steadily growing or running out - SAP ASE

• “Increase the config parameter 'number of open objects' ” messages are reported in the ASE errorlog.
• The number of 'Used' open objects is steadily growing per sp_monitorconfig reports.
• Running command sp_countmetadata 'open objects' returns a (much) smaller number than number of objects in use:

There are 8376 user objects in all database(s), requiring 148314 Kbytes of memory. The 'open objects' configuration parameter is currently set to 50000.

• While sp_monitorconfig  "number of open objects" output shows most or all objects used up and a value > 0 in Reuse_cnt column:

Name                             Num_free  Num_active  Pct_act   Max_Used  Reuse_cnt 
-------------------------------  -------------  ---------------- -----------  --------------- --------------- 
number of open objects         3             49997        100          50000        12589

SAP Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE). Not version specific.

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