How To Fix RT059 - Monitoring object: Swap Space

RT059 - Overview

• Message type: E = Error

• Message class: RT - Monitoring infrastructure MSG and alert texts

• Message number: 059

• Message text: Monitoring object: Swap Space

What causes this issue?

This monitoring tree element (MTE) reports on the amount of swap space
available in a particular host system.
Swap space is the amount of disk storage available for swapping or
paging out data from main memory. Because of its high-performance
memory management design, the SAP system makes intensive use of swap
space.

System Response

The system issues an error message and will not allow you to continue with this transaction until the error is resolved.

How to fix this error?

A swap space alert means that swap space is becoming critically short in
your system. Exhausting swap space in a system that is hosting an SAP
application server causes severe problems in the system.
See the memory management documentation (Help -> SAP Library, SAP
NetWeaver -> Application Platform -> ABAP Technology -> Client/Server
Technology -> SAP Memory Management) for help in preventing and
correcting swap space problems.

Error message extract from SAP system. Copyright SAP SE.

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• What is the cause and solution for SAP error message RT059 - Monitoring object: Swap Space ?

  The SAP error message RT059, which refers to "Monitoring object: Swap Space," typically indicates that the system is experiencing issues related to insufficient swap space. Swap space is a portion of the hard drive that is used as virtual memory when the physical RAM is full. When the system runs out of physical memory, it uses swap space to continue functioning, but if the swap space is also insufficient, it can lead to performance issues or system instability.
  
  Cause:
  
  Insufficient Swap Space: The primary cause of this error is that the allocated swap space is not enough to handle the memory requirements of the SAP system and its processes.
  High Memory Usage: If the SAP system or other applications are consuming a large amount of memory, it can lead to the exhaustion of available swap space.
  
  Configuration Issues: Incorrect configuration of the swap space settings in the operating system can also lead to this