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How does the performance of SAS Studio compare with other SAS interfaces?

The performance of SAS Studio is very similar to the performance of SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Display Manager.

Note The performance of SAS client software can be adversely affected by network latency that occurs when the client software communicates with a remote SAS server. For example, when the SAS Enterprise Guide client machine and the SAS server are physically far apart, you are more likely to encounter higher network latency that can negatively affect performance. Typically, the SAS Studio web server and the SAS server are located near each other, so there is lower network latency. However, as a web application, SAS Studio performance is also affected by the efficiency of the communication between the web server and the browser on the SAS client machine.

There is no specific limit to the number of concurrent users SAS Studio can support. In addition to factors such as the number and speed of the processors and the amount of RAM, the number of users that SAS Studio can support depends on the following workload factors:

SAS Studio is a web application, and the main source of resource demands are from submitted code rather than user activity in the application, such as selecting and populating tasks. SAS Studio and SAS Enterprise Guide are similar because they are both client applications that use workspace servers to process SAS statements. However, the applications use workspace servers differently. Because SAS Studio uses two workspace servers per user, the RAM demands for SAS Studio are higher than they are for SAS Enterprise Guide. In performance testing, each SAS Studio user is allocated an average of approximately 100 MB of RAM. For large numbers of signed-on users, SAS Studio performs better on a system with greater RAM capacity even if a large percentage of the RAM is allocated. If the RAM is exhausted and the system runs out of memory, the system can use a swap file, although this might affect the response time. How effectively SAS Studio can use a swap file to exceed physical memory depends on your operating system and how it is tuned.