Your SAS session might stop responding or require excessive time to complete the task when executing the SAS/GRAPH® SGPLOT, SGPANEL, or SGRENDER procedure. This issue is most likely to occur when referencing large data sets, but can happen with small data sets as well.

In addition, with SAS® 9.2, the following error might be written to the SAS log:

Error: Java virtual machine exception: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError.

With SAS® 9.3, the following errors might be written to the SAS log:

Error: Internal error in Java extension NewStringUTF().
Error: Internal error in Java extension FindClass().
Error: The Java classloader initialization failed.

To circumvent the problem, specify the NOCYCLEATTRS option in the PROC SGPLOT or PROC SGPANEL statement, as in the following examples:

proc sgplot data=your-data-set nocycleattrs;

proc sgpanel data=your-data-set nocycleattrs;

In cases where the data set is extremely large, include the LINEATTRS=(PATTERN=SOLID) option in the SERIES statement, as in the following example:

proc sgplot data=your-data-set nocycleattrs;
   series x=xvar y=yvar / group=groupvar lineattrs=(pattern=solid);
run;

To circumvent the problem with PROC SGRENDER, do one of the following:

• Specify the CYCLEATTRS=FALSE option in the LAYOUT statement in your PROC TEMPLATE code.
• Include the LINEATTRS=(PATTERN=SOLID) option in all of the SERIESPLOT statements in your PROC TEMPLATE code.

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