Re: Very slow reconnection to medm after IOC reboot

[Eric Norum <norume@aps.anl.gov>]

I think that beacons are going out properly.  Here's what casw reports  
when the IOC starts up:

iocmpbpm01.aps.anl.gov:5064              2009-02-04 10:20:32.848869048
iocmpbpm01.aps.anl.gov:5064              2009-02-04 10:20:32.884383710
iocmpbpm01.aps.anl.gov:5064              2009-02-04 10:20:32.967804726
iocmpbpm01.aps.anl.gov:5064              2009-02-04 10:20:33.264623956
iocmpbpm01.aps.anl.gov:5064              2009-02-04 10:20:33.607595531
iocmpbpm01.aps.anl.gov:5064              2009-02-04 10:20:34.739585154
iocmpbpm01.aps.anl.gov:5064              2009-02-04 10:20:36.020909160
iocmpbpm01.aps.anl.gov:5064              2009-02-04 10:20:38.563700176
iocmpbpm01.aps.anl.gov:5064              2009-02-04 10:20:43.683743449


At that point many MEDM screens connected right away, but one took  
about a minute or so.
Could this be a caRepeater problem?

On Feb 4, 2009, at 9:48 AM, Mark Rivers wrote:

> Can you say for sure whether beacons are being sent from those  
> systems?
>
> It appears that at least part of the problems I am having on my  
> Windows
> IOCs is that without setting EPICS_CAS_BEACON_ADDR_LIST no beacons  
> were
> being sent.  Once I set this, then preliminary tests show much faster
> reconnects.
>
> Mark
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Norum [mailto:norume@aps.anl.gov]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 8:50 AM
> To: Mark Rivers
> Cc: Jeff Hill; Andrew Johnson; Core-Talk
> Subject: Re: Very slow reconnection to medm after IOC reboot
>
> Just for the record, I see this problem from solaris MEDM sessions to
> R3.14.10 Coldfire/RTEMS IOCs too.
> Not all the time, but once in a while, widgets stay white for 3 or 4
> minutes after the IOC has completed iocInit().
>
> --
> Eric Norum <norume@aps.anl.gov>
> Advanced Photon Source
> Argonne National Laboratory
> (630) 252-4793

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Eric Norum <norume@aps.anl.gov>
Advanced Photon Source
Argonne National Laboratory
(630) 252-4793