Date:         Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:58:52 -0400
Reply-To:     "Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
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From:         "Fehd, Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI)" <rjf2@CDC.GOV>
Subject:      Re: catching process CPU and real time
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based on my own limited (1.5 years) R&D on this subject
I recommend that you stick with writing the log
and reading it later.
 
I had suggested that SAS provide pointers to the memory areas
where the various CPU and Memory values were stored,
but that item was refused.
 
This article addresses most of the setup issues of Batch Processing Under Windows
 
http://tinyurl.com/6zlqoh
 
http://www.sascommunity.org/wiki/Batch_processing_under_Windows
 
In my own site setup I use the following to overwrite the destination filename
of the altlog.
 
http://www.sascommunity.org/wiki/Using_sysfunc_with_file_functions_to_overwrite_altlog
 
see Michael Raithel's most excellent paper on using the LogParse macro
to read program logs.
 
Ron Fehd the more-than-you-wanted-to-know-from-your-(alt)log maven

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From: owner-sas-l@listserv.uga.edu on behalf of James Muller
Sent: Tue 6/10/2008 10:09 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Cc: James Muller
Subject: catching process CPU and real time



Hi list,

I'm looking around for automatically-set macros taking the values of the CPU
time and real time of the last process (data step, etc). Nothing found so
far. I may be looking past it, but am getting the sense of having exhausted
most possibilities...

I know I could set things up in a bunch of different ways to pull this
information out of a log, etc, but by a wide margin the best solution is to
handle it all internally in a SAS program, without requiring any files
written to disk along the way.

Failing an automatically-set real time variable, do we have access to a
high-resolution calendar time variable direct in SAS? Keeping with the
internal thing I'd rather avoid calling external programs to obtain this.

So, any thoughts? All appreciated-

Cheers

James