Keep in mind that by adjusting this value, the SAS System will now affect all other processes running on the NT server by requesting CPU cycles more often. This could affect the performance of other applications running on the NT server. Note, this seems to only affect the SAS System running on Windows NT 3.51. Defragment your disks. Windows NT, by default, does not provide disk defragmentation utilities.
Fragmented disks can adversely affect performance.
We do recommend that you experiment with this value to find out the optimal memsize value for your computing environment. 2001 SAS Institute Inc. All Rights Reserved.