When working with Microsoft Windows, you might need to modify the pagefile in your performance settings.

Microsoft has a Knowledge Base article that discusses this and makes recommendations about how to set this up. For additional information, go to the Microsoft KB Article ID:555223, RAM, Virtual Memory, Pagefile and all that stuff.

The typical recommendation is to set the pagefile to 1.5 times the amount of RAM in the computer.

Additional information is available on Wikipedia at Pagefile.

For more information about performance in the SAS^® environment, see the following information:

• TS-684: PC Performance and the SAS System
• TS-636: Help! My NT Server Is Too Slow
• SAS Technical Papers » Performance
• Usage Note 17759: Solving SAS Performance Problems: Employing Host-Based Tools
• SAS® Performance Optimizations on Intel Architecture

Operating System and Release Information

Product Family	Product	System	SAS Release
			Reported	Fixed*
SAS System	Base SAS	Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition
		Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition
		Microsoft® Windows® for x64
		OS/2
		Microsoft Windows 95/98
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Server
		Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
		Microsoft Windows NT Workstation
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
		Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition
		Microsoft Windows XP Professional
		Windows Millennium Edition (Me)
		Windows Vista

* For software releases that are not yet generally available, the Fixed Release is the software release in which the problem is planned to be fixed.

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Pagefile and Ram are questions we frequently get asked about when dealing with out of memory issues.

Type:	Usage Note
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Date Modified:	2008-08-07 10:05:15
Date Created:	2008-06-24 11:57:40