There are heaps of useful SAS resources on how to configure your Windows SAS Server for optimal performance. If you search the SAS support site with the key words: Windows server performance Crevar, you will find many of these. Margaret Crevar happens to be the SAS guru on this subject and is the author of many useful papers. If you think performance needs improving then looking at disk IO and storage is usually where you can get the biggest bang for your bucks as SAS is a very IO intensive application. Here's a few tips in this area: - ensure your SAS WORK and permanent storage are on different file systems. - configure WORK disk to be RAID 0 or 10 - configure permanent storage to be RAID 5 or 10 - split WORK and permanent storage on different IO channels There's a lot more to look at - check out Margaret's papers.
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