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Subject: RE: Portable Channel Access Server Event Queue
From: "Hu, Yong" <[email protected]>
To: "Christopher J. Pendleton" <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 13:14:22 +0000
Hello Chris,

A few questions and suggestions for you:

1. You said that postEvent() is called repeatedly at a very high rate. Is the rate at range of 10 Hz, 100 Hz or 1 KHz? I tested with PCAS example (makeBaseApp -t caServer ...) and found that I could not camonitor "jane" (a single double value) if I change its scan period from1.0e-1 to 5.0e-3 (200 Hz).   

2. Regarding the queue size, I found "Server Subscription Update Queuing" at http://www.aps.anl.gov/epics/base/R3-14/12-docs/CAref.html. Now,  we have questions for Jeff H. and others who know PCAS internal implementation: are the queue sizes for CA servers (PCAS, RSRV) and CA client configurable and how to configure them if they are? Does postEvent() use callbackQueueSize which is 2000 by default? Maybe, Chris's case is not related to the queue size at all.

3. You may use caServer::subscriptionEventsPosted() and caServer::subscriptionEventsProcessed() in your portable CA server. These two numbers should be same if the whole system, including the portable CA server and the CA client, is working properly. 

4. You may re-think how you handle your data. Instead of sending the sample(s) to the portable CA server and then postEvent() at a very high rate, you may queue / accumulate the sample(s), i.e. pack the data as an array (or a bigger array if the data source is already an array). Then, postEvent() that big data set at a lower rate.

5. If #4 is really not what you like to do, you may write a regular EPICS driver (record support-->device support (or asyn-based) --> driver) for your device, which is a natural way for EPICS-based low-level device control. The regular EPICS driver could give you up to KHz update rate if you really want your system to be so fast. 

Good luck!

Yong

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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Christopher J. Pendleton [[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, May 19, 2014 11:56 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Portable Channel Access Server Event Queue

I was hoping someone could help me with this? Thanks!

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher J. Pendleton [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, May 09, 2014 12:11 PM
To: '[email protected]'
Subject: Portable Channel Access Server Event Queue

Hello! I am using the portable channel access server API to provide EPICS
access to our devices. Some of our devices perform data acquisition at high
rates and send a buffer up to the server, which then calls the casPV class
method postEvent() repeatedly at a very high rate. When I run a client that
monitors this PV, I often see that some of the data samples are missing. I
suspect that this is a function of the queue size that postEvent()
populates, the rate at which it is populated, and the rate at which it is
offloaded by the client(s). Could someone please help me understand why the
client(s) would not receive the full set of data samples posted to the event
queue?

Regards,
Chris

Christopher J. Pendleton
Director, Software Development
Pyramid Technical Consultants, Inc.
http://ptcusa.com/

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