topic Re: ERROR: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of insufficient memory. in SAS Programming

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

CathyVI — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 04:28:02 GMT

Hi,

I'm getting this error from a propensity score code. I don't know how to fix the error. Any help please.

I found a similar question online where someone suggested to amend the target line and add -MEMSIZE 30G. I don't know what that means. Please provide a clear step by step description on how to fix it. Thanks

NOTE: PROC LOGISTIC is modeling the probability that case_stat=1.

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

NOTE: There were 758172 observations read from the data set AOA.M_2007_2011_A.

WARNING: The data set WORK.OSA_FINAL_PS may be incomplete. When this step was stopped there were 0 observations and 55 variables.

WARNING: Data set WORK.OSA_FINAL_PS was not replaced because this step was stopped.

NOTE: PROCEDURE LOGISTIC used (Total process time):

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

Kurt_Bremser — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 10:05:39 GMT

MEMSIZE is a SAS system option which can only be set at startup, either from the configuration file or the commandline.

In a purely local installation (everything on your PC) you can edit the desktop link, in a client/server environment you need to talk to the SAS admins.

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

ballardw — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 11:16:59 GMT

If you haven't already, you should read the on line documentation for Proc Logistic related to Computational Resources in the Details section. That will give you some idea about how the number of variables, records and some options affect your memory usage.

Your really should include the entire LOG contents of the Procedure including the code. You may have options that aren't really needed that add to memory needs.

For example EXACT regression requires more memory. With over 700,000 observations that may not be needed if used.