SAS Viya 3.4 and compsrv (compsrv spins when running a program until PID is killed)

[Reggie1]

I am using SAS Viya 3.4.  I am connecting to Amazon Redshift through an ODBC connection.  When I attempt to run a SAS program within SAS Studio on Viya the program does not complete on its own.  I have to go to the linux box and kill the compsrv.start.s and kill the PID in order for the program to complete.  Has anyone else had an issue such as this?  I only get this issue when trying to run it within SAS Studio on SAS VIYA.

Example of PIDS I would kill

rmjones@abcdefghighl:/opt/sas/spre/home/lib64/accessclients
$ ps -U rmjones
PID TTY TIME CMD
9271 pts/1 00:00:00 ps
14611 ? 00:00:00 compsrv_start.s
14631 ? 00:00:13 compsrv
14633 ? 00:00:00 elssrv
52233 pts/0 00:00:00 vim
101719 pts/0 00:00:00 bash
117970 pts/1 00:00:00 bash

I know the program run because, when I run the same program on SAS Studio on SAS 9.4, it runs as it should.  

Please help!!

Thanks

Reggie

[JuanS_OCS]

Hi @Reggie1 ,

from my point of view, you don't need to kill this process, it seems to me as it works as designed. SAS 9.4 works different than SAS Viya. Not only that, the SAS Compute Server and the Compute Service do work differently than the SAS Workspace Server and the SAS Object Spawner. Did you have a chance to read about:

• SAS Compute Server and Compute Service
• SAS Launcher Server and Launcher Service
• SAS Workspace Server and SAS Object Spawner

Check out the diagrams at the bottom, they help a lot to understand the general process.

Nonetheless, it might well be you could be in need to upgrade to Viya 3.5 or to install the latest hotfixes.

Perhaps @alexal knows more about it.

Best regards,

Juan

[alexal]

I agree with @JuanS_OCS , you do not have to kill that process. As he already mentioned, you can try to install the most recent hotfixes. If you will be able to reproduce the problem after that, the next step will be to get a traceback from the hanging process.