Question on Multiple Instruments in one IOC or Multiple IOCs for each

["Manoussakis, Adamandios via Tech-talk" <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Hello,

 

From a design perspective, is it better to have one device per IOC or would it be more efficient to group same devices into one IOC?  I have multiple same instruments (digitizers, DMMs) and was thinking to create one IOC with say 8 Digitizers or 8 DMMs but wasn’t sure if this was the way to go about this.  If its better to go the other direction 1 device 1 IOC, is there a better way to spawn out the IOCs (I would guess a bash script with variables for any of the values that need to be changed eg. IP address for each)?

 

Thanks,

Adam