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Subject: RE: BEAUTY Archiver and data from Area detector
From: "Malitsky, Nikolay D" <[email protected]>
To: Vítek Michal <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 19:20:02 +0000

Hi Mike,

 

We are working on this task here,  in NSLS-II, in the context of the next version

of Channel Archiver.  You can learn about the approach from the recent EPICS

meeting: http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/meetings/2013-10/

 

In short, the new version allows to use HDF5 for storing the conventional

time series of dbr data types and access them with the EPICS 4 RPC interface.

As a result, it creates a common platform for supporting images  and complex

data types.  Tentatively, we expect to release the “classical” version together

with the corresponding CSS plug-in in the end of November.  The support of

images however would require the development of a new  writer and  reader.

 

-Nikolay

 

 

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Vítek Michal
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 12:46 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: BEAUTY Archiver and data from Area detector

 

Hello,

 

We would like to archive data from cameras (grabbed by EPICS IOC with area detector) with BEAUTY archiver. We have prepared testing setup with 1 camera (512x512 img, 25 FPS, grayscale), BEAUTY archiver, and MySQL db. Each block is running on independent computer, interconnection is over 1GB lan. The network traffic measured on the output of the EPICS IOC is ~6MB/s. The image can be displayed by Control System Studio intensity graph without problems.

 

I have also added following param to the BEAUTY configuration file:

 

org.csstudio.platform.libs.epics/max_array_bytes=300000

 

because it was complaining about the size of the incoming image.

 

The memory available for the Java programs is set to 2GB by OS Environmental variable.

 

When we start the archiver we can see that BEAUTY consumes all available resources (2GB of RAM and 99% CPU) in ~5s and then it crashes. When we changed the PV to be scanned every 5s then the BAUTY maintain to run consuming ~1GB of memory, and ~20% CPU and write duration  ~240s.

 

Thus I would like to ask if BEUATY is suitable for the archiving of images from camera or if I am doing something wrong…? Can anyone help me with this?

 

Cheers,

 

Mike


References:
BEAUTY Archiver and data from Area detector Vítek Michal

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