>1) We have not experienced the CAMAC driver failure that is occurring
>at CEBAF. To the best of my knowledge CEBAF is using a different CAMAC driver
No, this is the LANL version of the driver causing trouble. However, we may
be the only site running a large number of serial highways at 5MHz. The
LANL driver's error handling is much heavier weight than the original
CEBAF design, partly because of support for LAM's.
>Note that the efficiency of the name resolution activity was improved
>in 3.12 at some point (by changing a time constant). Perhaps Marty's numbers
>do not agree with what CEBAF has observed because he is using a more recent
>version of the code.
We are running 3.12.2.
>Note that the CA client lib _WILL_ recover in the rare circumstances when
>this occurs if the operator is willing to wait for the full duration of
>the timeout.
We are seeing hung behavior persisting for a MUCH longer time than 80 seconds,
probably indicating that we encounter this timeout multiple times for a
single MEDM screen. (Question: how many names are sent in 1 packet?)
>(or a faster CPU that is less than 80% loaded)
I get tired of this response, but here's the reply again: it would cost the
equivalent of 2+ manyears of effort to replace all 60+ of our CPU's, or to
double their number. (Note that APS is of comparable size to Jefferson labs and
uses twice as many CPU's; I'm not yet desparate enough to propose a 1/4 M$
upgrade.
I think the best commendation I've heard is to raise the CA TCP task up in
priority. Can anyone think of any down side to this, other than compromising
the real time nature (mythical) of the lower priority scan tasks? If this
is safe, I can live with the synchronous connect problem.
Thanks for all the discussion,
Chip
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