Date:         Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:00:40 -0500
Reply-To:     Gerhard Hellriegel <gerhard.hellriegel@T-ONLINE.DE>
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From:         Gerhard Hellriegel <gerhard.hellriegel@T-ONLINE.DE>
Subject:      Re: Need to constantly restart SAS
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Jim,
I've once read in a computer magacine, that the bits´in the computer are
used very often and are outworn after a certain time. They also had a
program which loaded each memory bit and refreshed it. I think that was
last year in april... Since that time I run that program from time to time
and I have no more problem with that. You see it in the graphic of that
program: the bit comes in with round edges and corners and come out like a
perfect cuboid.
Gerhard


On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:18:17 -0500, Jim Agnew <agnew@VCU.EDU> wrote:

>Dear Anthony,
>
>It could either be related to sunspots, or, is there a correlation
>between any other program running that may have a memory leak?
>
>Or, have you run a disk check lately, or checked for bigfoot sightings
>in the area?
>
>You could have your pc team check the pc out, i forgot either a
>developing bad RAM chip (very rare), or too many hound dawgs on the
>front porch..  ;-)
>
>I'm in trouble now....
>
>Jim
>
>Anthony Pitruzzello wrote:
>> I recently transitioned form mainframe to PC SAS9.  I notice that
>> sometimes, seemingly at random periods, if I run a SAS program with an
>> error in it, I correct the error, rerun the program, but the program
>> doesn't appear to actually run.  The log records an exact copy of the
>> program without any comment at all.  I have to shut down the
>> application, restart it, then the program will run.  I have no idea why
>> this happens some days but not others.
>>
>> I notice this happens only if the program fails to run properly the
>> first time, which leads me to think this may be a clever way that SAS
>> periodically punishes programmers for sloppy work (which I am sometimes
>> guilty of) in an effort to raise the general programming level.  My
>> other theory is that it has something to do with the Earth's magnetic
>> field.  However, I'm hoping someone may have a more actionable
explanation.
>>
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>--
>
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