One of the sessions I got a lot out of at the SAS Global Forum was Margaret Crevar’s session where she outlined what options existed for tuning SAS on Windows 2008. Some recommendations I noted where: On Windows 2008 64-bit size: 4Gb of RAM per core. 1.5 x physical RAM for page file change default SORTSIZE to […]
Tag: SAS I/O
Testing I/O on your SAS Server
At the SAS Global Forum 2011 in the Grid architecture session , it was mentioned that SAS servers should be looking for a minimum I/O throughput of between 30-50mb/s per server (or Grid node). There is a good SAS paper on how to test the I/O throughput of a SAS server on both Windows and […]