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2081473 - SAP HANA Resident Memory: High Memory Usage

Component: HAN-DB-MON (SAP HANA Monitoring), Version: 6, Released On: 29.07.2020

Symptom
You observe a high percentage of total physical memory is marked as "Database Resident" or "Total Resident";
You want to know if it indicates an issue affecting your SAP HANA system;
You want to know if there are any required actions.

Environment
SAP HANA, platform edition

Cause
Under Resident Memory, you will find different memory measurements from the operating system perspective:

Database Resident is the size of resident memory at operating system level owing to SAP HANA database
processes. In case of a MDC system, Database Resident shows the memory allocated by the tenant database or
the system database;
Total Resident is the total size of resident memory in the operating system, including other programs;
Physical Memory is the total physical memory available in the server.

Resolution
1. There is no reason to be concerned about a high Database Resident memory utilization. The Database Resident
memory will grow up to the Allocation Limit value defined under "SAP HANA Used Memory".
2. In case there is a high memory utilization in "Total Resident", investigate the memory utilization in the
operating system to check other programs/processes;
3. Monitor the "Used Memory" metric in SAP HANA Studio for a reliable way to quickly monitor your SAP HANA
system memory utilization.

See Also
KBA 1840954 - Alerts related to HANA memory consumption
KBA 1999997 - FAQ: SAP HANA Memory
Memory Usage in the SAP HANA Database
Memory Analysis
Memory Indicators in the SAP HANA Studio
Memory Problems
Guided Answers: Troubleshooting SAP HANA - High Used Memory
 Keywords
out of memory; high usage; deallocated; reserve pool; used memory; global_allocation_limit; HANA Studio;
Monitoring Memory Usage; HANA services, process_allocation_limit, allocation_limit, resident, database resident,
total resident, physical memory, oom, large

Attributes
Key Value

Other Components HAN-DB-PERF (SAP HANA Database Performance)

Other Components HAN-DB-ENG (SAP HANA DB Engines)

Products
Products

SAP HANA, platform edition all versions

This document refers to

SAP Note/KBA Component Title

1999997 HAN-DB FAQ: SAP HANA Memory

1840954 HAN-DB Alerts related to HANA memory consumption

Memory Usage in the SAP HANA Database

Memory Analysis

Memory Problems

Memory Indicators in the SAP HANA Studio

Guided Answers: Troubleshooting SAP HANA - High Used Memory

This document is referenced by

SAP Note/KBA Component Title

3337621 How-to: Check how many memory SYSTEM DB is using

3265791 HAN-DB EWA report, "Almost all available physical memory of the SAP HANA server was in use"

3011480 HAN-DB-ENG How-To : Troubleshooting SAP HANA Memory Consumption

2688382 HAN-DP-SDI SAP HANA Smart Data Integration Memory Sizing Guideline

2817438 HAN-DB-MON How to check memory usage on secondary site in HANA system replication scenario

2743981 HAN-DB-MON Resident Memory and Used Memory for MDC system in HANA Studio Overview

2100010 HAN-DB-ENG SAP HANA: Popular Misconceptions

1999997 HAN-DB FAQ: SAP HANA Memory