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Hi Peter,

On 2013-06-27 D Peter Siddons wrote:
> Occasionally, I need to check or change a PV, for which I use the
> caget and caput command-line utilities. The operation (put or get) is
> executed immediately, but then the PC waits for several seconds before
> the cursor is returned. Does anyone know what is causing this? It feels
> like a network timeout, but all I have is a PC and an IOC with a
> crossover cable between. Anyone know the fix?

What version of EPICS were your caget/caput programs built against, and what 
is the Linux version they're running on?  We used to see delays like this at 
process shutdown while the atexit() routines were being run, but they were 
cleaned up quite a few releases ago.

- Andrew
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