Re: slow caput from R3.14.11 client to R3.14.9 IOC

[Andrew Johnson <anj@aps.anl.gov>]

Hi Jeff,

I wonder if this is more likely to be a channel connection issue.  Mark hasn't 
reported how busy his R3.14.9 IOC is or what architecture it's running on, but 
if the UDP processing task doesn't get to run very often that would slow down 
the caput operations without affecting throughput as such.

- Andrew

On Thursday 14 October 2010 17:20:19 Jeff Hill wrote:
>
> I ran some quick tests of R3.14.11 on my pc.
> I see a maximum throughput closer to a million puts
> per second when doing routine tests of the ca client library
> against the ca example server (excas), but this is not connecting
> and disconnecting the channel with each put. I can also
> connect around 50000 channels per second. This is probably
> with a debug (no optimization) build.
>
> It takes about 8 seconds to run a script that does 100 caput
> command line requests against the example server on my workstation.
>
> Jeff
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> > Subject: slow caput from R3.14.11 client to R3.14.9 IOC
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We've noticed at the CLS that channel access puts (caput) from a
> > default R3.14.11 build (linux-x86) to a 14.9 IOC are very slow.  As a
> > test, we ran a shell script with ~100 caput (command line) calls; it
> > took ~ 24 seconds to complete using the 14.11 version of caput, and
> > only 6s for the 14.9 version.
> >
> > Asynchronous caputs (using the channel access library, instead of the
> > command line) seem to be even slower -- sometimes taking over a minute
> > for the IOC to respond to all 100 puts.
> >
> > We're still debugging to see if this is a peculiarity of the IOC.  I'm
> > just wondering if anyone has seen similar issues involving channel
> > access between different EPICS versions?  Any suggestions for tools or
> > methods to help diagnose the problem?


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