Date:         Wed, 27 Feb 2002 04:53:11 -0800
Reply-To:     Andrew Bushmakin <abushmakin@ARGOSE.COM>
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From:         Andrew Bushmakin <abushmakin@ARGOSE.COM>
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Subject:      Re: Speeding up Analyses on PCs
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Brian,

For me the biggest jump in speed (at least 5 times) was
when I emulated HD in RAM (I use SperSpeed Software for this)

Next step just redirect WORK directory to this disk:
1) Find file Sasv8.cfg
2) Find line -WORK "C:\SAS\SAS Temporary Files\"
3) Change it to -WORK "N:\" (Assume that it is the RAM Drive)

My configuration now 1GB HD in Ram and 512MB for OS works for me.

Andrew




BMitche3@EESUS.JNJ.COM (Mitchell, Brian [EESUS]) wrote in message news:<B62C798CD6ECD511BE8300805F85AE9838868E@eesusciexs4.eesus.jnj.com>...
> We're looking at upgrading our PCs in order to
> speed up processing (both sorting/merging and statistical
> analysis) of larger datasets (several million obs).
> Any thoughts on where to spend the $$$ most effectively?
> Memory or CPU/motherboard?  Our current machines
> are IBM Pentium 667/933 Mhz with 128/256 Mb RAM. TIA
>
> Brian Mitchell,
> Sr. SAS Programmer
> Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc.
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