eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by UpdatePerfTest

The update system is designed to reduce the workload of the SAP transactions when significant changes are made to the database. The changes are carried out asynchronously - usually with short delays in between - by special update work processes. This is why the update system is widely used in SAP transactions (by almost every transaction that changes business data), although transactions also can change the data directly in the database.

This test tracks the performance of the update system on a SAP R/3 server.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Response_time The time taken for the update Secs  
Queue_time The wait time of the update processes in the dispatcher queue Secs  
Utilization The percentage utilization of the update work processes Percent  
Update_work_procs The number of work processes of type Update 1 (high priority) and Update 2 (low priority) Number There must be atleast one Update 1 type work process in the system.