If you experience poor performance when importing models in your SAS Activity-Based Management solution and you are running the Windows 2003 Server operating system, you might be able to improve performance by following the suggestions below. This information pertains to all versions of Windows 2003 Server in which SAS Activity-Based Management is supported.

1. Increase the size of the minimum amount of memory of the SQL server.
   This can be done in the Enterprise Manager. The default is zero, but a setting of 2015 has helped in some cases.
2. Ensure that IIS 6 (which is provided with Windows 2003) is not running in IIS 5 compatibility mode.
   This setting is accessed via the Internet Information Services manager under Web Sites. Select the Web Sites folder, right-click, and choose Properties. On the Service tab, make sure that the box labeled Run WWW Service in IIS 5.0 isolation mode is not checked.
3. Prevent IIS from automatically restarting its 'worker' processes.
   These settings are accessed via Internet Information Services manager under Application Pools. Select the Application Pools folder, right-click, and choose Properties. On the Recycling tab, make sure that the box labeled Recycling worker processes is not checked. On the Performance tab, make sure that the box labeled Shutdown worker processes after being idle... is not checked.

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