Bug w/ Ping command?

["Leland, David" <dleland@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ran across something interesting today.  We were running a never-ending
program which simply did a PING to a few IP addresses every 10 seconds
to keep the addresses alive.  After running for a couple days I noticed
our disk usage had gone up dramatically.  Within two days it went from
41% to 49%.  After looking for the obvious, I thought about that job and
when I looked at it I noticed that it had used so much temporary storage
that it was all '+++++++++++'.  Funny thing is, there was nothing in
it's QTEMP library that was of any size at all.  I did an ENDJOB *IMMED
on it and after about 2 hours it finally ended and our disk usage was
back down to it's normal place.

I'm running the program again and watching it's Temporary storage used,
and everytime it does a PING, it jumps up about 40 and never goes back
down.  So, the question is, is this a bug w/ PING or is there something
I can do to reclaim that Temporary storage after everytime it does a
ping?

Dave
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