Eviews 9 crashes when loading data in SAS file

[tvonbrasch]

Hi

Im loading several SAS (sas7bdat) data files. Most of the files are less than 5 GB. However, when loading a data file that is 8.5 GB Eviews just stops working. I have kept an eye on the amount of memory used by Eviews, but it is much less than what is available on the network (20 GB). I am therefore not sure what is causing this error.

Unfortunately, I cannot send you this data due to confidentiality.

When loading the file, I can first choose which variables to read. Then Eviews starts to read the series. After abut 68% is remaining, it stops working (see image).

Do you have an idea what can be causing Eviews to crash? Is there anything I can do to find out what the error is?
Thomas

[EViews Gareth]

We'd like to recreate this somehow. Can you give some indication of the structure of the SAS file? How many series? How many observations?

[tvonbrasch]

Hi, there are 76 series and 11 684 454 observations for each series.

If I only open four of the series, it works fine. (and I only need four of them, so my problem is solved).

hope you figure out what is causing this problem
Thomas
(im running Eviews 9 64-bit)

[startz]

tvonbrasch,

How much memory do you have on your machine? I'm wondering if you're running out of memory, not that that should cause a crash.

[tvonbrasch]

Hi

The program is running on a network drive with 20 GB of memory. I have watched the memory usage while loading the data set, and (as far as I can see) the problem is not caused by to little memory.....
Thomas