Which performance parameter influence the runtime of Proc SEQUENCE?

[klroesner]

Hello SAS World!

we use the SEQUENCE Procedure for churn analysis. The procedure does not seem to make full use of the available memory and CPUs. Does anyone know which performance parameters (Memsize, CPUcount, etc.) we can use to shorten the runtime? The compute server has 30 GB Memsize and 4 Cores and the Procedure use only 154 MB memory and 1 Core. And the real time for the processing of a subset of the real data is 1:04 h.

Cheers, Klaus

[klroesner · Accepted solution]

The current version of the sequence analysis is not able to handle problems with a higher number of events. We have discussed this with SAS R&D and the algorithm will be improved or newly implemented for SAS Viya 4.0.