FULLSTIMER

FULLSTIMER

Generates memory usage and image usage statistics for each task the SAS System completes

Default: NOFULLSTIMER

Valid in: configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS statement

Windows specifics: all

Syntax
Details
See Also

Syntax

-FULLSTIMER | -NOFULLSTIMER

FULLSTIMER | NOFULLSTIMER

FULLSTIMER: specifies that the SAS System write to the SAS log a complete list of computer resources that were used for each step and for the entire SAS session.
NOFULLSTIMER: specifies that the SAS System not write a complete list of computer resources to the SAS log. This is the default.

Details

The FULLSTIMER system option specifies whether all the performance statistics of your computer system that are available to the SAS System are written to the SAS log. For Windows 95, only real time data is available. For Windows NT, real time and CPU time data is available.

This system option also gives you time-elapsed statistics, provided that you have not turned off the STIMER option. If you turn off the STIMER option, the FULLSTIMER option does not generate time statistics.

If you do not need statistics on such tasks as the SAS windowing environment (statistics for the windowing environment are available only when the SAS System terminates), you should turn off the FULLSTIMER system option before you end your SAS session. If you do not turn this system option off, you see several dialog boxes displaying the statistics for SAS termination. If you have had a long or complex SAS session, there may be quite a few of these boxes.

Some statistics are not accurate unless the FULLSTIMER system option is specified at startup time.

See Also

System option: STIMER
The chapter on optimizing system performance in SAS Language Reference: Concepts.

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Default:	NOFULLSTIMER
Valid in:	configuration file, SAS invocation, OPTIONS statement
Windows specifics:	all