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Subject: RE: caget delays
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:04:01 +0000
What does ifconfig say? Am I right in thinking the problematic machine is the one with many network interfaces?

Thanks,
Tom Cobb
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:tech-talk-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Rivers
> Sent: 23 April 2013 00:13
> To: 'Andrew Johnson'
> Cc: EPICS Tech Talk
> Subject: RE: caget delays
> 
> The problematic IOC is on a dual-boot system, Linux Fedora Core 14 and
> Windows 7 64-bit.
> 
> I just rebooted it with Windows.
> 
> Initially caget and caput worked without delay.  But after running the
> IOC for a while it is now in a state where caget and caput are again
> slow.  This is from a remote Linux system to the Windows IOC.  The IOC
> computer is more than 90% idle.
> 
> I have now modified the 3.14.12.3 version of caput to also print the
> time in various steps:
> 
> corvette:base/src/catools>../../bin/linux-x86_64/caput
> 13PS1:cam1:Acquire 0
> Old : 13PS1:cam1:Acquire             Done
> New : 13PS1:cam1:Acquire             Done
>  Time to create context=0.000555
>     Time to connect PVs=0.030361
>         Time to put PVs=0.000936
>     Time for ca_pend_io=0.000006
>         Time to get PVs=0.000381
> Time to destroy context=2.010504
>              Total time=2.042742
> 
> corvette:base/src/catools>../../bin/linux-x86_64/caget
> 13PS1:cam1:Acquire
> 13PS1:cam1:Acquire             Done
>  Time to create context=0.000547
>     Time to connect PVs=0.030242
>         Time to get PVs=0.000579
> Time to destroy context=2.010867
>              Total time=2.042235
> 
> 
> This is running caget and caput from a remote Windows 7 machine:
> 
> H:\epics\base\src\catools>..\..\bin\windows-x64\caput
> 13PS1:cam1:Acquire 0
> Old : 13PS1:cam1:Acquire             Done
> New : 13PS1:cam1:Acquire             Done
>  Time to create context=0.007857
>     Time to connect PVs=0.040451
>         Time to put PVs=0.007289
>     Time for ca_pend_io=0.000005
>         Time to get PVs=0.007154
> Time to destroy context=8.858039
>              Total time=8.920796
> 
> H:\epics\base\src\catools>..\..\bin\windows-x64\caget
> 13PS1:cam1:Acquire
> 13PS1:cam1:Acquire             Done
>  Time to create context=0.011290
>     Time to connect PVs=0.033812
>         Time to get PVs=0.006111
> Time to destroy context=4.530879
>              Total time=4.582092
> 
> So destroying the context is taking 2 to 9 seconds on these systems for
> both caput and caget.
> 
> I also learned a little more about my problem with using IDL to start
> the cameras, with IDL doing a caput to the Acquire PV.  It always works
> fine to start the cameras the first time the script is running after
> starting IDL.  However, running the script again always causes the
> cameras to lose close to 100% of their frames.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:tech-talk-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Rivers
> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 4:43 PM
> To: 'Andrew Johnson'
> Cc: EPICS Tech Talk
> Subject: RE: caget delays
> 
> I did another test, running the new version of caget on the problematic
> Linux machine itself, the one whose IOC has long times to destroy the
> context.
> 
> I find the if EPICS_CA_ADDR_LIST is localhost it is very fast, but if
> it is the broadcast address of my subnet it is slow.
> 
> Colorado:areaDetector/iocBoot/iocPS3>setenv EPICS_CA_ADDR_LIST
> localhost
> 
> Colorado:areaDetector/iocBoot/iocPS3>/corvette/usr/local/epics/base/bin
> /linux-x86-gcc43/caget 13PS1:cam1:Acquire
> 13PS1:cam1:Acquire Done
> Time to create context=0.000799
> Time to connect PVs=0.028771
> Time to get PVs=0.000303
> Time to destroy context=0.001288
> Total time=0.031160
> 
> 
> 
> Colorado:areaDetector/iocBoot/iocPS3>setenv EPICS_CA_ADDR_LIST
> 164.54.160.255
> 
> Colorado:areaDetector/iocBoot/iocPS3>/corvette/usr/local/epics/base/bin
> /linux-x86-gcc43/caget 13PS1:cam1:Acquire
> 13PS1:cam1:Acquire Done
> Time to create context=0.000783
> Time to connect PVs=0.028628
> Time to get PVs=0.000367
> Time to destroy context=1.999753
> Total time=2.029531
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on
> behalf of Mark Rivers [[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 4:32 PM
> To: 'Andrew Johnson'
> Cc: EPICS Tech Talk
> Subject: RE: caget delays
> 
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> The problem is not that the IOC is busy running the cameras. The same
> long delay when running caget/caput/cainfo occurs even if the cameras
> are not acquiring. This is a quad-core Linux machine, and when the
> cameras are not acquireing all CPUs are less than 3% busy. The network
> is essentially idle with less than 15 KB/sec traffic.
> 
> I modified the caget program from base-3.14.12.3 to print the time
> required for each operation.
> 
> Here are the results when running caget to a similar Prosilica IOC on a
> busier but "non-problematic" Linux server:
> 
> corvette:base/src/catools>../../bin/linux-x86_64/caget
> 13IDAPS1:cam1:Acquire
> 13IDAPS1:cam1:Acquire Done
> Time to create context=0.000516
> Time to connect PVs=0.028928
> Time to get PVs=0.000327
> Time to destroy context=0.000643
> Total time=0.030414
> 
> So the total time is 30 ms, and the time to destroy the context is 643
> microseconds.
> 
> This is the result to that same Linux IOC from a Windows 7 64-bit
> machine:
> H:\epics\base\src\catools>..\..\bin\windows-x64\caget
> 13IDAPS1:cam1:Acquire
> 13IDAPS1:cam1:Acquire Done
> Time to create context=0.008363
> Time to connect PVs=0.035649
> Time to get PVs=0.006076
> Time to destroy context=0.002816
> Total time=0.052904
> 
> So the total time is 53 ms, and the time to destroy the context is 2.8
> ms.
> 
> Now here are the results from the Linux and Windows machines to the
> "problematic" IOC, which is completely idle because the cameras are not
> acquiring:
> 
> corvette:base/src/catools>../../bin/linux-x86_64/caget
> 13PS1:cam1:Acquire
> 13PS1:cam1:Acquire Done
> Time to create context=0.000591
> Time to connect PVs=0.029165
> Time to get PVs=0.000520
> Time to destroy context=3.602033
> Total time=3.632309
> 
> H:\epics\base\src\catools>..\..\bin\windows-x64\caget
> 13PS1:cam1:Acquire
> 13PS1:cam1:Acquire Done
> Time to create context=0.020868
> Time to connect PVs=0.043227
> Time to get PVs=0.005942
> Time to destroy context=8.930734
> Total time=9.000772
> 
> So from both Linux and Windows the time to create the context, connect
> to the PVs and get the PV values are essentially the same as on the
> non-problematic IOC.
> 
> However, the time to destroy the context is 3.6 seconds on Linux and
> 8.93 seconds on Windows!!!
> 
> What could possibly be causing this? How do I debug it?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Johnson [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2013 10:11 AM
> To: Mark Rivers
> Subject: Re: caget delays
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> On 2013-04-22 you wrote:
> > However, when I run the caget program from EPICS base this is what I
> get:
> >
> > corvette:prosilicaSupport/GigE_SDK_Linux_v1.26/documents>date ;
> > /corvette/usr/local/epics/base/bin/linux-x86-gcc43/caget
> > 13PS1:cam1:Acquire ; date Mon Apr 22 09:43:51 CDT 2013
> > 13PS1:cam1:Acquire Done
> > Mon Apr 22 09:43:53 CDT 2013
> >
> > So it takes 2 seconds. This only seems to happen to this particular
> IOC,
> > not to all IOCs. The IOC is running areaDetector for Prosilica
> cameras,
> > but the cameras are not running. It does not matter how many IOCs are
> > running on that Linux (Fedora core 14) host.
> 
> As I said in my reply a few minutes ago, I think this is because
> caget/caput
> program is waiting for the CA connection to close down, and it's taking
> that
> IOC some time to respond to the "close" request from the client because
> it's
> busy running the cameras. Does it still take the 2 seconds if you stop
> the
> camera acquisition so the IOC is not busy? IDL is not closing down CA,
> so
> it's not waiting for the shutdown to finish.
> 
> Running the IOC as a SCHED_FIFO process could also fix this, see the
> wiki page
> I pointed you to.
> 
> - Andrew
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> depends upon his not understanding it. -- Upton Sinclair
> 
> 


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