RE: Bug w/ Ping command?

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

That's an interesting thought.  I'll check it out.

Dave

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>From:  Matthias Oertli[SMTP:oertlim@s054.aone.net.au]
>Sent:  Friday, December 12, 1997 7:27 PM
>To:    MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>Subject:       Re: Bug w/ Ping command?
>
>On Thu, 11 Dec 1997 14:20:00 -0500, Leland, David wrote:
>
>>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?
>
>Could it be the joblog?
>Every ping sends a few messages to the joblog (one for each ping, five
>in all 
>plus a header and a summary message).
>
>My 2 cents.
>Matthias
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>Matthias Oertli, Sydney, Australia 
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