Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Carl Lionberger <[email protected]> · Tue, 16 Dec 2003 10:09:15 -0500

I'm not sure which version of MCA you are using, but suggest trying one
of our SNS versions, available at http://ics-web1.sns.ornl.gov/mca.html
There are versions for EPICS R3.13 and R3.14.

If you have stability problems with these, please inform me.

Carl

On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 01:14, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi Stephanie,
> 
> I noticed your question regrading linking of MCA on linux which you posted
> to tech-talk in October 2002.  Did you have any success with that?
> 
> We're currently looking a Matlab with the idea of using it as part of our
> control system for the Australian Synchrotron, and I'm evaluating it on a
> Red Hat linux box at the moment.  I've successfully compiled MCA (in
> particular mcamain.cpp) and have a little example application up and going
> which monitors one process variable. I've found it to be very unstable... I
> very frequently get segmentation faults when I run the application and,
> after some debugging, the problem appears to be within MCA itself.
> 
> I don't suppose you've run into anything like this in your investigations?
> My next step is to try it out on Windows and see if I get the same
> instability.
> 
> Steve Banks
> Australian Synchrotron Project
> Department of Infrastructure
> Level 18, 80 Collins Street
> Melbourne   VIC   3000
> tel:  +613 9655 6303
> fax:  +613 9655 8666
> web: www.synchrotron.vic.gov.au
> 
> 
-- 
Carl Lionberger
SNS Control Systems Group, ORNL
Phone: 865-574-7636
Fax:   865-241-6739

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System