Does locked documents in sm12 can cause system to slow down in reading

Question

hi experts,
When I check locked entries in sm12, i found some locked entries which are already past 8 hours and sometimes more. Do those entries contribute to the system's slow performance? When should I delete those entries? I hesitate to delete locked entries and kick users out of the system because they maybe editting some documents and have'nt saved them yet.
Thank you in advance for your response.

Answer 1

Hello,
System Lock mechanism doesn't slow down system. But sometime it's required to delete the entries of hanged uses login processes, which can be done through SM04/AL08 as described by GURUS.
But sometime though you try to delete from these T-Code the process doesn't get delted, then you can proceed for the below mnetioned two steps:
1. SM50 and delete the corresponding process through PROCESS > CANCEL WITHOUT CORE
                                                                                PROCESS > RESTART AFTER ERROR -> NO
2. If you have access to OS level, then the same can be deleted by following command:
                                                                                kill -9 <process no.>
In case any issue, please feel free to revert.
Reagrds,
Nilutpal