How To Fix 00864 - No. of dialog WP restarts (because abap/heaplimit exceeded) since startup

00864 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: 00 -

• Message number: 864

• Message text: No. of dialog WP restarts (because abap/heaplimit exceeded) since startup

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00864 - Details

• The SAP error message "00864 No. of dialog WP restarts (because abap/heaplimit exceeded) since startup" indicates that a dialog work process (WP) has been restarted due to exceeding the ABAP heap memory limit. This can happen when an ABAP program consumes more memory than is allocated for the heap, leading to performance issues or even application crashes.
  
  Cause:
  
  Memory Consumption: The ABAP program or transaction being executed is consuming more memory than the configured heap limit.
  Inefficient Code: Poorly optimized ABAP code can lead to excessive memory usage, such as large internal tables, memory leaks, or excessive use of global variables.
  Large Data Sets: Processing large volumes of data without proper pagination or chunking can lead to high memory consumption.
  
  Configuration Issues: The heap memory limit may be set too low for the workload being processed.
  
  
  Solution:
  
  
  Increase Heap Memory Limit:
  
  You can increase the heap memory limit for the dialog work processes. This can be done in