Proc Geocode Freezes with Street Level Option 9.4 (TS1M4)

[DPP]

We've recently installed SAS 9.4.TS1M4. When trying to GEOCODE 4 MM rows of data the proc hangs up. It reached 5% at one point and appears to get increasingly slow between % readouts in the log. Eventually it hangs altogether. We are using StreetLookupData_94-2016 address files and Proc coding log and results are below. If I add obs then things seem to finish relatively fast. I've seen board posting about freeze issues with prior SAS releases; just wondering if this release has the same issues. Any help would be appreciated.

23 proc GEOCODE

24 method=street /* Geocoding method */

25 data=geoData.PAT_ADDRESS (obs=5000) /* Input address data */

26 out=geoData.PAT_ADDRESS_GEO /* Geocoded output data set*/

27 lookupstreet=streetdl.usm /* Tiger 2016 data set */

28 /*attribute_var=(tracte00) /* Added output variables */

29 ;

30 run;

NOTE: Address data set GEODATA.PAT_ADDRESS has 3,891,171 observations.

_________________ Geocoding Progress _____________________

_____ Completed ____ _____________ Time _______________

Percent Obs Current Remaining Completion

0% 0 07:09:20 -- --

100% 5,000 07:12:39 00:00:00 --

_________ Geocoding Summary _____________________________

Address data: GEODATA.PAT_ADDRESS

Output data: GEODATA.PAT_ADDRESS_GEO

STREET lookup data: STREETDL.USM

CITY lookup data: MAPSGFK.USCITY_ALL

ZIP lookup data: SASHELP.ZIPCODE

Geocoding method: Street level

Run date: 09Mar2017

Obs processed: 5,000

Elapsed time: 00:03:19

Obs per minute: 1,505

Street matches: 2,846

ZIP matches: 1,954

City matches: 87

Not matched: 113

[Kurt_Bremser]

Given your progress of 1505 obs / min, the whole dataset would need 43 hours.

Either something is seriously wrong with the lookup data, or your SAS machine is massively underpowered for this.

[DPP]

Thanks for the response; the machine is an I7 8 core with 32 Gig of RAM; The 2019 Tiger files were downloaded and built using scripts at SAS Maps Online (http://support.sas.com/rnd/datavisualization/mapsonline/html/geocode.html) with no errors. When I run 100 or 5000 or even 50,000 things work. Eventually the thing hangs up. Can't really see any issues with horse power or Tiger files.