Windows is a little bit different to the Unix approaches. Having fast IO in the local iron you will benfit the most of it. Check the Margareth Crevar papers for those. A starting point could be: http://support.sas.com/resources/papers/proceedings15/SAS1501-2015.pdf Did you think off Utilloc ? remember each of the requests shoudl have sufficient space. by spreading the total you are also lowering the maximum of a single process.
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