SPDEFILECACHE System Option

Enables or disables caching of opened SPD Engine data files.

Valid in: Configuration file, SAS invocation
Category: System administration: Performance
Default: NOSPDEFILECACHE
Engine: SPD Engine only
Syntax
Actions
Details

Syntax

SPDEFILECACHE | NOSPDEFILECACHE

Actions

SPDEFILECACHE

Enables caching of opened SPD Engine data files.

NOSPDEFILECACHE

Disables caching of opened SPD Engine data files.

Details

Use the SPDEFILECACHE system option to enable or disable file caching of opened SPD Engine data files. Caching SPD Engine data files can improve performance by reducing the need to open and close files. If SPD Engine data files are used in a shared environment, caching files can result in performance degradation. This degradation happens when a user must wait on a file that another user has opened but is no longer accessing.
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