Date:         Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:25:52 -0700
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From:         Dale McLerran <stringplayer_2@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Recurring nonreproducible problem
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After replacing my hard drive, my problem has not recurred.  A tip
of the hat to those who pointed me in that direction.

Dale

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Dale McLerran
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
mailto: dmclerra@NO_SPAMfhcrc.org
Ph:  (206) 667-2926
Fax: (206) 667-5977
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--- On Thu, 6/26/08, Richard Wright <richard.wright@DARS.STATE.TX.US> wrote:

> From: Richard Wright <richard.wright@DARS.STATE.TX.US>
> Subject: Re: Recurring nonreproducible problem
> To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
> Date: Thursday, June 26, 2008, 7:43 AM
> Any chance you're keeping everything in memory either
> using MEMCACHE or
> MEMLIB and running low?
>
> Another, related possibility, is you're either running
> out of virtual
> memory or your pagefile.sys is fragmented.
>
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:26:09 -0700, Dale McLerran
> <stringplayer_2@YAHOO.COM> wrote:
>
> >Michael et al,
> >
> >Here is a little more information about my system and
> the data that
> >I am referencing.  My system is a twin core desktop
> computer with an
> >80 Gb hard drive and 2 Gb RAM.  The hard drive is
> formatted to about
> >75Gb and I have over 50 Gb of space available.  I am
> running XP and am
> >connected to a network, but I am the only person
> running applications
> >on the system.
> >
> >The data that I am using had about 300 variables and
> 330 observations.
> >At 8 bytes/value, that is less than 1 Mb of space
> required for the
> >data that I am operating on.
> >
> >It may be some disk error - that the disk is crapping
> out as Warren
> >suggested.  I have run CHKDSK with the following
> results:
> >
> >CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
> >File verification completed.
> >CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
> >Index verification completed.
> >CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
> >Security descriptor verification completed.
> >Correcting errors in the master file table's (MFT) BITMAP attribute.
> >Correcting errors in the Volume Bitmap.
> >Windows found problems with the file system.
> >Run CHKDSK with the /F (fix) option to correct these.
> >
> >  78067867 KB total disk space.
> >  24643604 KB in 246636 files.
> >     80688 KB in 21265 indexes.
> >         0 KB in bad sectors.
> >    343699 KB in use by the system.
> >     65536 KB occupied by the log file.
> >  52999876 KB available on disk.
> >
> >      4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
> >  19516966 total allocation units on disk.
> >  13249969 allocation units available on disk.
> >
> >
> >I have run CHKDSK C: /F a couple of times and rebooted
> my system
> >for the CHKDSK fix to execute, and I still get the same
> message
> >that Windows finds a problem with the disk.  I am
> guessing that
> >this is at the root of my problems.
> >
> >Dale
> >
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> >Dale McLerran
> >Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
> >mailto: dmclerra@NO_SPAMfhcrc.org
> >Ph:  (206) 667-2926
> >Fax: (206) 667-5977
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> >
> >
> >--- On Wed, 6/25/08, Michael Raithel
> <michaelraithel@WESTAT.COM> wrote:
> >