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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

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?

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)

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.

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