Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 13:55:30 +0100
Reply-To: John Whittington <johnw@MAG-NET.CO.UK>
Sender: "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From: John Whittington <johnw@MAG-NET.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: memory problem
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 08:57:42 +0200
Reply-To: Carina Ortseifen <Carina.Ortseifen@URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE>
>I know this error message from SAS for DOS 6.04 when trying to sort
>a big dataset or when calculating Fisher's exact test with the procedure
>FREQ when there are too small EMS.
>
>You should perhaps increase your SWAP file or check your 16 MB RAM.
It is obviously quite possible (I would guess probable) that with 16 MB
total RAM, Hans-Peter would probably not have the 11 MB free RAM workspace
which his application wanted, particularly if he is has a RAMdrive of any sort.
My personal experiences suggest (possibly incorrectly) that the Windows SWAP
file is not usually the answer - since SAS appears to need everything in RAM
simultaneously for some computations. If 'everything else' is SWAPped to
disk and there still is not enough RAM available, I don't think that
increasing the size of the SWAP file will necessarily help - in that sense,
I don't think that one can necessarily think of the SWAP file as being an
'extension to RAM'. But maybe I am wrong!
John
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