Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Matt Rippa <[email protected]> · Fri, 21 Mar 2014 11:21:51 -1000

Hi Maren,

Agreed. It's strangely a tough sell.

Overall the frozen cpu cases are rare. But I've seen enough of
them in the lab to be worried.

-Matt

On 03/21/2014 10:57 AM, Maren Purves wrote:
> On 03/21/14 10:37, Andrew Johnson wrote:
>> Hi Matt,
>>
>> On 03/21/2014 02:21 PM, Matt Rippa wrote:
>>> I have an MVME6100 with Epics 3.14.12.2 running vxWorks 5.5.
>>> Sometimes when testing changes to a new vxworks kernel or just
>>> an update to a new epics module, my shell stops hard, and Ctrl-x
>>> doesn't work. Power cycling is my best friend in that case, but
>>> is it my only option?
>>
>> Does hitting the VME Chassis reset button rescue you from
>> those hang-ups?
> 
> Not if you're 30 miles away from you IOC.
> 
> Matt, you may really have to talk your powers that be into
> networked
> power switches.
> 
> Maren

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System