Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

["Jeff Hill" <johill@lanl.gov>]

Ken,

I am getting a better handle on how to get meaningful data out of
quantify. One of my quantify runs this afternoon reported that the
example portable server was spending a whopping 55% of its total CPU
time in the CRTL pool management routines. Closer inspection revealed
that this was nearly all related to new and delete (malloc and free) for
the data structure that gets queued for each monitor update. In R3.14 I
have a template for creating free lists in C++, but didn't when I wrote
the portable server and therefore none of its data structures were
originally obtained from free lists. Clearly this needs to change. Note
however that this is fixing an issue that existed also in the R3.13
portable ca server, and all previous versions. So this does not explain
the performance slow down of the gateway in R3.14, but still it is an
encouraging result and I expect that we can make a big improvement based
on this alone.

Jeff
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