What is the benefit of having several cas sessions running?

acordes — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 17:36:39 GMT

I haven't cared so far about this issue. I use cas actions and cas programming all over.

But I wonder why I have 6 sessions running.

An what is the use case for having several active sessions?

I suppose that if I do not manage the sessions actively I'll face sooner or later performance issues.

When I'm starting my day I run:

/* Init CAS library; */
cas mySession sessopts=(caslib=casuser timeout=1800 locale="en_US");
caslib _all_ assign;
cas mySession sessopts=(caslib="casuser");

But I do not close sessions. I turn off my laptop and that's it.

I think that's bad practice.

I would like to know what I'm missing out not understanding and dealing properly with the sessions.

80   proc cas;
81      session mySession;
82      session.sessionStatus result=res;    /* 2 */
83   
84      print "Session status:";             /* 3 */
85      print "   State:         " res["state"];
86      print "   Connections:   " res["number of Connections"];
87      print "   Timeout:       " res["Timeout"] "minutes";
88      print "   Action Status: " res["ActionStatus"];
89      print "   Authenticated: " res["Authenticated"];
90      print "   Locale:        " res["locale"];
91   run;
NOTE: Active Session now mySession.
Session status:
   State:         Connected
   Connections:   6
   Timeout:       1800 minutes
   Action Status: Action is active
   Authenticated: Yes
   Locale:        en_US
92   quit;
NOTE: PROCEDURE CAS used (Total process time):
      real time           0.00 seconds
      cpu time            0.01 seconds

Re: What is the benefit of having several cas sessions running?

Patrick — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 06:44:32 GMT

I'm wondering why your log says the timeout value is in minutes!? If it were in seconds as per docu TIMEOUT= Session Option then you just walking away at the end of the day shouldn't cause such issues.

Timeout:       1800 minutes

May-be worth looking a bit closer into the cause for this being minutes together with your SAS Admin and/or SAS Tech Support.

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