Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Benjamin Franksen <[email protected]> · Fri, 18 Nov 2005 12:15:13 +0100

On Thursday 17 November 2005 23:06, Andrew Johnson wrote:
> Benjamin Franksen wrote:
> > please re-read my message. I explicitly said I did this to provoke
> > an error message on the IOC console. I merely wondered if this is
> > such a severe error that the IOC must report this five times, when
> > (IMHO) once would have been enough ;-)
>
> My apologies for not completely reading your message, however the IOC
> is merely reporting the error every time it occurs, i.e. once every
> time the CA client retries the name search.  Your client gives up
> searching after trying for 1 second, during which time there are 5
> searches.  If I ask caget to wait 10 seconds, I get rather more
> messages.

Ah, this makes it perfectly clear. I didn't know that caput tries to 
connect to a PV multiple times. Thanks for the explanation.

> Throttling the duplicates not a trivial problem however; it would be
> simple to remove the message completely (see src/db/db_access.c), but
> I can see it being occasionally useful to track down errant clients.

I have no problem with the current behavior. Just didn't know where it 
came from and thought there might be something wrong, which obviously 
isn't the case.

Ben

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System