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- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 11:47:20 -0800
- Reply-To: Jim Goes <goes@chimera.sph.umn.edu>
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- From: Jim Goes <goes@CHIMERA.SPH.UMN.EDU>
- Subject: dos 5.0 & SAS 6.0.4
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- > From: David Webb <dcwebb@GIBBS.OIT.UNC.EDU>
-
- > I can't reference a manual, but one of the campus support
- > folk here told me that -ems all only gives 2 meg of expanded
- > memory. To get more you have to use the following formula:
- >
-
- > (K/16)-1 where K=the # of kilobytes of expanded memory
- > you want.
- >
-
- > i.e. for 4 meg of expanded memory you would have
- > (4096/16)-1=255. Then your ems line in config.sas would
- > read as follows:
- >
-
- > -ems 255
-
-
- While you can get SAS to use more than 2 meg of EMS, I'm not sure
- that you want to. I recall a discussion some time ago on the list
- that few SAS procs will use more than 2 meg EMS. It's not like this
- is a linear expansion of your usable memory for memory-intensive
- procs like SORT. Even on a 286, that extra memory (>2 meg) can be
- more beneficially used for ramdisks, etc. that can speed SAS up a
- little. If you are wedded to the '286, at least get a floating point
- co-processor chip if you don't have one (in fact I can sell you a
- used one). They go for cheap these days, and make a big difference. --
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