topic Re: fullstimer in SAS Programming

fullstimer

Steelers_In_DC — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 18:20:51 GMT

I understand how to use and how to read the additional options that fullstimer prints to the log but I do not know what to do with the information. Can anyone give me a practical example of what I would do with the additional information provided?

Thank You,

Mark

Re: fullstimer

jakarman — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 19:08:15 GMT

The practical example is dependent of seeing more ways solving a problem or having options available for tuning.

Only seeing it as informational for a single appraoch of some problem is the limited view.

Re: fullstimer

AhmedAl_Attar — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 09:29:33 GMT

You may want to have a look at this SGF paper A Practical Approach To Solving Performance Problems with SAS®

On page 5 it has a section titled "FULLSTIMER Statistics Definition and Interpretation".

Hope this helps,

Ahmed

Re: fullstimer

MMMIIIIKKKKEEEE — Fri, 11 Sep 2015 19:58:16 GMT

Mark,

In addition to the great advice you got from Japp and Ahmed, check out my oldie-but-goodie paper:

Programmatically Measure SAS Application Performance on Any Computer Platform with the New LOGPARSE SAS Macro

It provides a lot of information on what you can do with the metrics surfaced via FULLSTIMER.

Best of luck in all your SAS endeavors!

----MMMMIIIIKKKKEEEE

(aka Michael A. Raithel)