Why are some elapsed time values negative in the artifactusagedetails.sas library for Workspace Server sessions?
The Workspace server performance log names include a date and process id string to ensure the server logs are unique for each server instance. On active servers the “process id table” may reuse process ids within the same day. In these instances, the workspace server performance log will contain multiple server session data within the same log file. The post-processing of logs results in some negative elapsed time values. It is important to emphasize that the resulting usage reports for the Workspace server are in fact correct, as the reports are not using the elapsed time metric for reporting. The issue is resolved in the package dated December 17, 2009. Customers that wish to zero out the negative elapsed time values may download the sample SAS Update Artifactusagedetails program. Instructions for updating the artifactusagedetails library are included in the sample.
