Hi,

I am currently using SAS to run programs for my graduate thesis. I have to sort a 3 GB file, and SAS gives the following error:
"ERROR: Utility file write failed.  Probable disk full condition."

I tried referring to various sources, but couldn't find a correct solution. 
- please let me know if there is any way to increase the size of this utility file. A sample program would be very helpful.
- Also, even if I allocate "sas -memsize 10240m", it always allocates a max memory of 4 GB. Is there any way to increase this memory allocation? 

This is my program for reference:

data lookup;
infile '/ibrixfs1/home/ramakrs/thesis/Kendals/GOSemanticSimilarityBL_val.txt' dlm=' ' missover pad;
input goTerms $21. simVal $10.;
run;
proc sort data=lookup; by goTerms; run;

The lookup file is 3.2 GB in size and fails during sort. 


Thank you very much,
Sriram