topic ERROR: PROC MEANS was terminated prematurely due to a memory shortage. in SAS Programming

ERROR: PROC MEANS was terminated prematurely due to a memory shortage.

Havi — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 06:49:14 GMT

Hi Guys

Please help. I have the following error when running my proc means:

ERROR: PROC MEANS was terminated prematurely due to a memory shortage. Adjusting MEMSIZE and/or SUMSIZE may allow normal processing

to complete.

ERROR: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of insufficient memory.

How do I resolve this?

Thanks!!

Re: ERROR: PROC MEANS was terminated prematurely due to a memory shortage.

umashankersaini — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 08:29:36 GMT

Set the SAS System option SUMSIZE=Maximum.

it would help to run the proc means

if still not ,then need to increase the MEMSIZE or REALMEMSIZE .

Regards

Uma Shanker Saini

Re: ERROR: PROC MEANS was terminated prematurely due to a memory shortage.

ballardw — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:02:44 GMT

Are you using lots of class variables and analysis variables? If so you might consider controlling which combinations are being used. Also, if this is generating large tables you may look into sending the output to a dataset instead of the results window as the displays in memory can eat a lot of resources.

Re: ERROR: PROC MEANS was terminated prematurely due to a memory shortage.

Peter_C — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 18:16:25 GMT

Please post the syntax which fails and a hint of the number of obs on the input table