Date:         Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:09:16 -0500
Reply-To:     Wensui Liu <liuwensui@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Wensui Liu <liuwensui@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Is GENMOD Stuck???
Comments: To: machelle <machellewilchesky@gmail.com>
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it is not surprising to see this happened.
i just tried to run a NB model with proc genmod and the algorithm
fails to converge. And my data is even smaller than yours.
Then I changed to use glimmix and it worked out fine for me. but
still, it took a long time to get the result.

On Jan 14, 2008 7:38 PM, machelle <machellewilchesky@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> I'm running a huge model with 16 million records, 27 independent
> variables. It's a pooled logistic regression using proc GENMOD with
> both a repeated statement and a weight statement. I set it to go 10
> hours ago and it appears to still be running, but I'm not quite sure
>
> If I open the temporary work folder, I see that the SAS Utility file
> "_tf0014" stopped being modified several hours ago
>
> Shoulld I be worried that it's stuck? Or should I just be patient and
> wait?
>
> ( I'm not sure if this matters, buut I am running a dual core
> processor with 4GB ram and have a terabyte disk with 750GB free for
> use by SAS space...)
>
> thanks,
>
> Machelle
>



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