Specifies the maximum amount of memory to allocate for using memory-based libraries in Windows operating environments.
Valid in: | configuration file, SAS invocation |
Category: | System Administration: Memory |
PROC OPTIONS GROUP= | MEMORY |
Default: | 2G |
Windows specifics: | all |
specifies the amount of memory to allocate in multiples of 1; 1,024 (kilobytes); 1,048,576
(megabytes); 1,073,741,824
(gigabytes); and 1,099,511,627,776 (terabytes), respectively. You can specify decimal
values for the number of kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, or terabytes. For example,
a value of 8
specifies
8 bytes, a value of .782k
specifies 801 bytes,
and a value of 3m
specifies 3,145,728 bytes.
specifies the amount of memory to allocate as a hexadecimal value. You must specify
the value beginning with a number
(0–9), followed by an X. For example, the value 2dx
sets the amount of
memory to 45 bytes.