topic sas utilloc in Administration and Deployment

sas utilloc

himalayancat — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 16:11:59 GMT

Hello All,

we have configured base sas in different drive then what it was default ,say D drive .

when i go to properties and and in target i see "E:\Program Files\SASHome\SASFoundation\9.4\sas.exe" -memsize 4g -sortsize 2g -utilloc K:\user\SASWORK -work K:\user\SASWORK

i searched online papers as well and read them. but nothing give clear and concise answer.if you can,i will appreciate it.

1.what is memsize 4g mean?what is sortsize 2g mean?

2.what is the use of utilloc?

Thank You,

Re: sas utilloc

PeterClemmensen — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 16:19:45 GMT

You can read about the MEMSIZE and SORTSIZE in the relevant parts of the documentation

MEMSIZE System Option

SORTSIZE System Option

They are both very important from a performance point of view.

Re: sas utilloc

JuanS_OCS — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 16:21:34 GMT

1.what is memsize 4g mean?what is sortsize 2g mean?

2.what is the use of utilloc?

Hello @himalayancat,

all of this is about performance.

memsize and sortsize is the amount of memory that this session can use, for general operations, and for sorting operations. 4g is 4 Gigabytes and 2g is 2 GigaBytes.

See: http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/hostwin/69955/HTML/default/viewer.htm#n0srij4mcdpzv2n1vtphltb00xjw.htm

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37038194/increasing-sas-memory-memsize

About UTILOC, it is a temporary location, for sorting, stat opertions, multi-threaded operations ... By default it is the same location as SASWORK, but it could be different.

https://documentation.sas.com/?docsetId=lesysoptsref&docsetTarget=p1texr4rxo0ipyn1ovajj11raccx.htm&docsetVersion=3.1&locale=en

Mind of not having them too high if you are under SAS 9.4 M1: http://support.sas.com/kb/50/035.html

Re: sas utilloc

himalayancat — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 17:28:37 GMT

thank you. 🙂