Hi peers! I am writing and running jobs using SAS Dataflux (v2.4) within Data Management Studio. To date this has been on a Intel i5 64bit Windows7 machine equiped with 4Mb of RAM. Occasionally, especially with large jobs, this would cause problems and I would be asked to close down the application or even that I had 'attempted to read/write protected memory and it had become corrupt'. This generally occurred whilst developing code. Additionally, often whilst running jobs, the machine was working hard - there appeared to be a lot of disk activity and from monitoring, it appeared that all available memory (just under 3Mb) was being used To attempt to address this, I increased the memory in my machine to 8Mb. However, this had little effect on job times and investigating further, it appeared that Dataflux still only used just under 3Mb of RAM Reading through the SAS literature - it advises "a minimum of 2Mb" If anybody can add to the above experience and advise on the optimum pc setup I would be most grateful. I am beginning to think that Dataflux doesn't use the full 64bit capability? Thanks Nige
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