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3525427 - Swap Space in SAP: How It Works, When It Hurts You, and How to Configure It Right

Symptom

Swap space is disk-backed memory used when physical RAM is exhausted. On a healthy SAP system, swap should rarely be touched. When it is, performance degrades fast because disk I/O is orders of magnitude slower than RAM access.


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Environment

SAP NetWeaver Application Server

Product

SAP NetWeaver Application Server all versions

Keywords

KBA , BC-OP-LNX , Linux , BC-OP-AIX , IBM AIX , SV-PERF , Performance Problems , How To

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