Date:         Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:04:04 +0530
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From:         ohri2007@GMAIL.COM
Subject:      Re: SAS and XP with dual processors
Comments: To: FPAStatman <brentvtimothy@gmail.com>
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IMO  SAS has a different pricing plan, per CPU count if you want to
use multiple CPU's .

HTH.

Regards,

Ajay
www.decisionstats.com
On 8/8/08, FPAStatman <brentvtimothy@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have SAS 9.1 running on Windows XP Professional (version 5.1.2600)
> on a machine with dual processors, and 4G ram.  I am running a SAS
> program, which is taking a long time to run, and so I opened task
> manager to see what else was running.  Running only SAS and Task
> Manager, I observed that only one processor is being utilized, My CPU
> usage never goes over 50%.  I have checked the system settings in SAS,
> and it supposedly should recognize 2 processors.  Is there a way to
> actually get SAS to utilize more of the CPU so it can run faster?  If
> I was to put SAS on a 16 processor server would it even make a
> difference if it never uses more than one processor?
>
> Thank you
>


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Ajay Ohri
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