Configuring and tuning an environment is part luck and part science. Luckily, a group of employees at SAS dedicate their time to helping you improve system performance. Margaret Crevar is one of those people. She just recently shared several papers with me so that I can share them with you. The first of those papers addresses performance with SAS 9 on Windows 2008.
If you are running SAS®9 on Windows 2008 and your system is not performing like you would like, please read on. SAS and Microsoft have been working very closely since the first of this year to help mutual customers overcome performance issues. All of the lessons learned have been captured a SAS paper, Configuration and Tuning Guidelines for SAS 9 in Microsoft Windows Server 2008, which is available on support.sas.com.
If you aren't convinced that this paper is for you, read the following snipit from the Introduction:
Before you examine the system demands and performance issues that occur with SAS®9 in Windows Server 2008, you should be aware of system provisioning for throughput and performance in SAS®9 in Windows Server 2008. When you install a new system or upgrade an existing one, your initial hardware configuration is someone’s best guess at what you need, based on the information that is available. While experience can make that guess more accurate, the initial configuration is based on some assumptions about how many jobs, how much data, and the type of processing being done.
Hooked now? Read the paper and post questions or comments to this blog post.
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I read through the paper mentioned in the article and thought it was great. However, we are putting together a new production server that has SAS 9.3 installed on it. Are there plans to update the paper with any changes that are specific to 9.3? Do all the techniques described in the paper still apply to 9.3? More importantly, are there any that should NOT be applied when using SAS 9.3? Thanks!
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