While developing new reports and dashboards in VA, we set our AUTOLOAD process on our Linux o/s to occur every 5 minutes for expediency. We have recently attempted to Autoload tables that are so large that it appears the first attempt to load them begins but they do not finish loading within 5 minutes when the next AUTOLOAD cycle kicks off. What is the expected behavior in this situation? Does the failure to load the first time prevent the Autoloader from attempting again, unless the table's timestamp is updated? Or does the AUTOLOADer continue to work on loading the original table in the background, not attempting a new load despite the AUTOLOAD process kicking off every 5 minutes, and will eventually complete. We've seen what looks like the 2nd scenario happen in a few situations, but the Autoloader.sas7bdat file which is a log of the Autoloader attempts shows no indication of the table loading in background. We just eventually notice the table appeared when viewing Manage Environment in VA.
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