Background process going to " abap/heap limit"

Hi All,
When i check the trace file of the workprocess which is a background process it shows that the
" WP has reached abap/heap limit"
Does this trigger the dialog process into PRIV mode? or is it OK for a background process to reach the heap limit.
Please advise.
Best Regards,
DVRK

Hi Ramakrishna,
The trace you are seeing is for the background process and is no longer related to dailog process.
Some times we can see the abap/heaplimit issues due to background jobs running parallely on the same host.
When the abap/heaplimit reaches max. the job gets cancels
Try to trigger the job on low load instance
(or).
If this occurs on a regular basis. Try to find out the jobs which are failing and tune them accordingly
(or)
Take the help of Basis in fine tuning the abap heap memory parameters.
Hope I answered your query.
Regards
Sandy

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