topic memsize option while running sas via batch mode in Administration and Deployment

memsize option while running sas via batch mode

LearnByMistk — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 04:29:29 GMT

Hi All,

I'm stuck with a doubt, can we pass memsize while running our SAS job on the grid as a batch script ie nohup abc.sas -memsize 20G &

I found one link which states how could I set memsize on EG for the different set of user (http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/gridref/67371/HTML/default/viewer.htm#n1inymfs0b7go2n147xdknz0ygpx.htm), but not sure how to apply it while running as a batch script.

Thanks for the help in advance.

Re: memsize option while running sas via batch mode

Kurt_Bremser — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 07:36:55 GMT

You can do it like that on the commandline. The commandline option takes preference over all other settings from the config file(s).

Re: memsize option while running sas via batch mode

JuanS_OCS — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 08:28:53 GMT

Hello @LearnByMistk,

indeed, command line has preference as @Kurt_Bremser mentioned.

However, and towards make administration and maintenance easier, also to developers, my main recommendation would be to just create additional SAS Batch Servers on your SASApp. You can have as many as you want to, since it is not an IOM server. And on each Batch Server, you can select the memory settings. The configuration and autoexec can be either the same or you can make changes, as those memory settings.

On that way, the users will just need to select the right batch server when they deploy/schedule the jobs and it will automatically take the settings.

Re: memsize option while running sas via batch mode

nhvdwalt — Fri, 19 Jan 2018 08:28:07 GMT

For a SAS Grid environment, you can also use Grid Options Sets. See this link...

http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/gridref/67371/HTML/default/viewer.htm#n1inymfs0b7go2n147xdknz0ygpx.htm