How to delete Shared Memory?

[Former Member]

Hi Gurus,

Please help me to get out of this issue. I have to delete the content in shared memory. My system is R/3 4.6c and SQL 2000.

Thanks and Regards,

Ravi Basavaiah.

[andreas_herzog · Accepted solution]

-> what do you mean by "deleting"?

-> free shared memory?

-> do you have a problem allocating shared memory segments?

GreetZ, AH

[former_member433984]

what kind of SHM?

what is the problem exactly?

Windows has completely another mechanism for memory segments.

The memory segment (also SHM) is deleted by Windows memory manager after the last handle refering this segment is closed.

So, I could assume that you have to terminate all instances of the work process (disp+work) or sapstartsrv or saposcol.

[Former Member]

We have to delete/free shared memory. We tried to restart the system. It doesn't help me.

Is there any other way to accomplish this?

Thanks for ur time reply.

[markus_doehr2]

You can try to find out which program still have handles open.

http://www.sysinternals.com (now a Microsoft site)

--> Process Utilities

--> Process Explorer

Download that and execute it on your SAP system.

Then dig down to the process tree and check all processes of user SAPService<SID> and <sid>adm.

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Markus

[former_member433984]

before posting any question it was very nice to describe the issue in details.

[kishore_soma]

Hi Yaroslav,

I have some same kind of problem, we have SAP on Windows & SQL server.

The problem is SAP oscol is not running even after updating the SAP BASIS patches

the error is SAPoscol not running? (Shared memeory not available)

Thnx in advance

Kishore