Performance of foreground vs. background processing

[Former Member]

We've noticed that processing of the same job / code in background processing is much slower than it is in foreground / interactive processing. Is this an inherent behavior and/or intended design of the way the system works? Our desire is to have specific jobs perform identically in background as they do in foreground and ultimately disallow foreground processing.

Any insight from anyone knowledgeable? (This is a Windows 2k / SQL Server environment.)

[Former Member]

Hi,

If running on the same app server, there should be no reason for a performance difference between running the same program in foreground or background.

If you tested first in background and then soon in foreground, the explantion could come from data caching at the database and SAP buffers level ?

Regards,

Olivier