Very high memory consumption of B1i and cockpit widgets

[Former Member]

Hi all,

finally I have managed it to install B1i successfully, but I think something is wrong though.

Memory consumption in my test environment (Win2003, 1024 MB RAM), while no other applications and no SAP addons are started:

tomcat5.exe 305 MB

SAP B1 client 315 MB

SAP B1DIProxy.exe 115 MB

sqlservr.exe 40 MB

SAPB1iEventSender.exe 15 MB

others less than 6 MB and almost only system based processes...

For each widget I open (3 default widgets, one on each standard cockpit), the tomcat grows bigger and leaves less for the sql server, which has to fetch all the data (several seconds on 100% of CPU usage).

Is this heavy memory consumption normal? What happens if several users are logged into SAP B1 using widgets?

Thanks in advance

Regards

Sebastian

[Former Member]

Hi Sebastian,

You need to upgrade your hardware to meet the need of the application. It has too small RAM for the job.

Thanks,

Gordon

[Former Member]

Hi Gordon,

so this is normal? Then I guess the dashboards are not suitable for many customers, especially for them who are working on a terminal server infrastructure. Even if the tomcat server has this memory consumption only on the SAP server, when each client needs about 300 MB (and add some hundred for the several addons they need!), I could not activate the widgets. And generally SAP B1 is not the only application running at the customers site. Suggesting to buy more memory for some Xcelsius dashboards won't convince the customer.

I hope that this feature will be improved in the future, otherwise the cockpit is just an extension of the old user menu (except for the brilliant quickfinder on top of the screen).

Regards

Sebastian