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Subject: | iocInit and vxstats |
From: | Al-Adwan Ahed <[email protected]> |
To: | [email protected] |
Date: | Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:11:28 +0100 |
Hello Tech-Talk,
Vxstats has provoked somehow the following problem which I don't fully understand, that's why I put it here, so someone hopefully can clarify it.
Vxstats spawn a cpuUsage task, at the initialization of this task (iocInit-device support), it waits (SECONDS_TO_BURN = 5 * SysClkRateGet() ) and measure CPU load and use that as reference for further measurements (I think).
Some how, only in 2 iocs out of 140, the TSdriver which exactly comes after the device support initialization in iocInit don't initialize properly. When TSdriver don't initialize properly, the channels time stamp are not synchronized with the unix server (soft timing slave mode).
The problem disappear if I don't load vxstats :), when I set SECONDS_TO_BURN to zero, when I increase sysClkRate :(, when I introduce a delay on devVxsats.c just before spawning the task, or when I insert that delay inside iocInit just after the device support init and before the TSdriver init.
If you look inside iocInit.c, you will find that there are some delays introduced between tasks initialization. The questions here, Is there an explanation for that? On what basis these delays - inside iocInit - was introduced (duration wise and location wise)? Well it be better if it was done in a regular manner (a delay after each task init)?
On the other hand, vxstats has a bundle of additional files (SLib, PVS, rdbls, vx_stats, ioc_stats, rdbapplist, tsSubr) that has either unneeded functions by devVxstats or are already part of iocCore, is it clear for any one what is the need for these fiels?
I use vxstats-SNS, EPICS 3.13.9, vxWorks 5.5, MV5100.
Cheers, Ahed
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