| SAS Companion for the Microsoft Windows Environment |
If you are using
SAS under Windows NT, you can control the relative responsiveness of your SAS session by altering the application performance level. This can be done by
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selecting
| START |
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Settings |
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Control Panel |
which displays Control
Panel window.
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clicking on the System icon within the Control Panel window. This displays
the System Properties window.
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selecting the [Performance] tab within the System Properties
window.
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drag the Boost arrow to alter the performance response time for the foreground application.
To
optimize the Windows NT performance, alter the application performance boost using these guidelines:
To analyze the performance of your SAS applications, you can specify SAS performance counters within the
NT Performance Monitor. For more on using NT Performance Monitor, see Overview.
If your PC has multiple
processors, SAS takes advantage of symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) with Version 7 I/O enhancements. Larger amounts of read-ahead processing is done for procedures that have large amounts of sequential
data access on data stored on Windows NT Server. This occurs more on system with extra processing power to service NT and it's disk cache.
The following is generally true
in multi-processing SMP environments:
Ensure that Windows is configured for optimal performance:
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With the right mouse button, click on the
My Computer icon on the desktop, and select Properties....
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Select the
Performance tab. The performance status should report that your system is configured for optimal performance. If it is not, use the Advanced Settings to adjust the
configuration accordingly.
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