Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Kenneth Kang <[email protected]> · Tue, 17 Aug 1999 08:36:50 -0700 (PDT)

BaBar is using state machines on VxWorks.  Some of these state machines
connect to channels on different IOCs.  When the other IOC (the one that
the state machines is connecting to) reboots, some of the time, the state
machine will freeze in the current state.  In one instance, it was frozen
for over 222,000 seconds.

The existing code checks to make sure its connected before doing the
pvGet.  It is compiled for synchronous channel access.

        if (pvConnected(in[cnt])) {
          pvGet(in[cnt]);
	}

Our current solution is to only use local DB records--the remote records
are being duplicated on the IOC running the state machine.

Kenneth Kang

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System