Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Allison, Stephanie" <[email protected]> · Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:22:16 -0800

Hi Dennis,

>  > lcaGet ('garbage')
> hangs for a minute or two, then takes down matlab.
> Hitting control-c during the timeout also crashes matlab.

Hmm.  I do the same test on a linux box (2.4.21-37.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP  i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux) running epics 3.14.8.1+strtod patch with no problem (see below).  Can you provide more information like what version of epics are you using?

BTW, I like labCA since it lets me set retry count and CA timeout.  The older version of MCA that we have here doesn't allow it.  Plus Till sits next door.

matlab -nojvm 

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>> lcaGet('garbage')
Initializing labCA Release '$Name:  $'...
Author: Till Straumann <[email protected]>
Ctrl-C handling is disabled (compile-time option)
       ==> Initializing max. timeout to 5. seconds
multi_ezca_get_nelem -  ezcaGetNelem(): could not find process variable : garbageError: Errors encountered...
??? (see above error messages)
>>

Stephanie Allison

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System