ERROR:Internal error in Java extension NewDoubleArray(). and very long process time

[Christina96]

Hi all, I am new to SAS. Now I am using Windows 10 and SAS 9.4.

I used the the proc univariate procedure and I encoutered a problem.

Here is my code:

proc univariate data=summer plot normal; 
var a; 
freq b; 
run;

The dataset has more than 16000 observations.

A error message popped up:

ERROR: Internal error in Java extension NewDoubleArray().

ERROR: Java virtual machine exception. java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space.

ERROR: Java virtual machine exception. java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space.

NOTE: The SAS System stopped processing this step because of errors.

NOTE: PROCEDURE UNIVARIATE used (Total process time):

real time 4:51.49

cpu time 4:31.76

It took near 5 minutes to process this. It's very strange. I checked the forum and tried this https://support.sas.com/kb/31/184.html. But it didn't help. How can I solve this? 

Thank you!

[ChrisNZ]

2 solutions: 

- Increase the JRE memory to a high value

- Contact Tech Support

[andreas_lds · Accepted solution]

This could be caused by using "plot"-option, can you verify that you won't get that error when using proc univariate without "plot"? But contacting tech support seems to be the best/fastest way to get a working solution.