topic Re: Enterprise guide 8.3 slower than 7.13? in SAS Programming

Enterprise guide 8.3 slower than 7.13?

gboggs — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 17:50:15 GMT

We are introducing EG 8.3 to our users and I have some feedback that it is slower than the 7.15 version that we are using now.

The one big consideration in our configuration is that we are still on 9.4_m4 with the intent to upgrade to 9.4_m7 in a few weeks. Has anyone done benchmarks on the two? Can I attribute it to the mismatch between the client and server?

Re: Enterprise guide 8.3 slower than 7.13?

ChrisNZ — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 23:52:37 GMT

I don't have EG 8, but EG is just a dumb interface to SAS.

It sends programs and displays results. So unless the slowness you are referring to is in the interface, the comment is odd.

The SAS program is sent to the server for execution, and the speed of execution has nothing to do with EG.

Can you tell us what exactly is seen as being slower?

Re: Enterprise guide 8.3 slower than 7.13?

jimbarbour — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 05:20:46 GMT

For what it's worth, I'm running EG 8.2, and it's fine. It's actually a nice improvement over EG 7.1.

Your SAS jobs themselves should not run any different because of EG whether they are 9.4 M4 or 9.4 M7. Maybe M7 will run a little faster because M7 has better tuning, but if so that will have nothing to do with EG.

Is the interface itself hanging? I have seen that with EG version 7.1. EG 8.2 seems much improved in that regard. I have not yet used EG 8.3.

Jim

Re: Enterprise guide 8.3 slower than 7.13?

gboggs — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 11:05:02 GMT

Thank you. That was my thought but wanted to get some validation.

Re: Enterprise guide 8.3 slower than 7.13?

jimbarbour — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 18:35:35 GMT

Can you describe the exact nature of the slowness? Exactly how is the "slowness" manifesting itself? Is EG running slowly? Are SAS jobs on the server running slowly? Exactly what is happening?

Jim