topic Re: How to increase PC memeory size usage for SAS in SAS Programming

How to increase PC memeory size usage for SAS

GeorgeSAS — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 15:00:23 GMT

Hello,

My SAS will always froze when the memory run out(over 53,756 k).I have to open task manager to kill the SAS console.all the work not saved will lose.

I want to know how to config to make memory size bigger for usage of SAS? or how to save the frozen SAS console?

Thanks!

Re: How to increase PC memeory size usage for SAS

LinusH — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 15:07:53 GMT

Please define what client you refer to with "My SAS".
Foundation SAS sessions usually doesn't freeze, but it can appear that way if you start a heavy job which requires lots of memory (usually explicit or implicit sorts).

Re: How to increase PC memeory size usage for SAS

GeorgeSAS — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 15:27:46 GMT

I use PC windows 7 professional ,SAS version 9.4,
but same problem happened on early version for me.
I often double click a large data set to look the data ,I assume this cost lots of memory

Re: How to increase PC memeory size usage for SAS

LinusH — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 20:17:20 GMT

Been awhile since I used DMS SAS with large data sets, but if I recall I works ok.

But of course, you should benefit from adjusting your memory settings either way.

MEMSIZE is the major one, you could set to a bit lower than your physical memory.

Also, SORTSIZE is by default very low, set that a bit lower than the MEMSIZE option.