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Subject: RE: Problem with seq 2.0.4
From: Carl Lionberger <[email protected]>
To: Jeff Hill <[email protected]>, Mark Rivers <[email protected]>, tech-talk <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 01:51:40 -0400
I've seen a similar problem with seq 2.0.2 when the ioc the sequencer was 
running on did not have ca security access to the PV's on the other ioc's it 
needed to connect to.  I think it miscounts the disconnects when it can't 
write to the PV's, probably adding a disconnect each time it fails.  In our 
situation, just giving write access to the PV's fixed it.  It looks to me like 
the sequencer does not implement the client-side api for channel access 
security.

Carl


>===== Original Message From Mark Rivers <[email protected]> =====
>Jeff,
>
>> The database links are well tested in this mode of operation,
>> but perhaps there is a race condition in the sequencer which is influenced 
by the
>> improved performance of CA in R3.14. There might also be a
>> problem in the R3.14 implementation of the CA client library.
>
>I am now quite convinced that the problem is CA related, and probably related 
to the fact that 2 of the 26 PVs I am connecting 2 are in another IOC.  The 
other 24 are local.  My other seq programs talk only to local PVs, and they 
work fine.
>
>When the seq program fails to connect to some channels I see the following:
>#####
>seq &BM13_Energy, "E=13BMA:E, MONO=13BMA:m17, EXPTAB_Z=13BMD:m22, 
YXTAL=13BMA:MON:, ZXTAL=13BMA:m14"
>@(#)SEQ Version 2.0.5: Tue Sep 2 15:52:2 2 CDT 20030x1238a08:
>Spawning state program "BM13_Energy", thread 0x11ae730: "BM13_Energy"
>value = 18540336 = 0x11ae730
>Done executing startup script /home/epics/3.14/CARS/iocBoot/ioc13bma/st.cmd
>ioc13bma> 24 of 26 assigned channels have connected
>DB CA Exception: "Virtual circuit disconnect", context "164.54.160.75:5064"
>CA.Client.Exception...............................................
>    Warning: "Virtual circuit disconnect"
>    Context: "164.54.160.95:5064"
>    Source File: ../cac.cpp line 1537
>    Current Time: TUE SEP 02 2003 20:18:09.811156578
>....................................................................
>CA.Client.Exception...............................................
>    Warning: "Virtual circuit disconnect"
>    Context: "164.54.160.95:5064"
>    Source File: ../cac.cpp line 1537
>    Current Time: TUE SEP 02 2003 20:18:10.127823232
>....................................................................
>CA.Client.Exception...............................................
>    Warning: "Virtual circuit disconnect"
>    Context: "164.54.160.95:5064"
>    Source File: ../cac.cpp line 1537
>    Current Time: TUE SEP 02 2003 20:18:13.461156432
>....................................................................
>ioc13bma> 24 of 26 assigned channels have connected
>####
>
>When the seq program initializes OK (which is rarely) I don't see these 
CA.Client.Exception messages.  One puzzling thing is that the number of 
unconnected channels reported by seq is not 2 (as it was in this particular 
test, and as one might expect), but some integer times 2, so the number of 
connected channels is 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 or 26.
>
>Is the above error message indicative of a problem with CA itself, or could 
it be a problem with the seq client?
>
>The remote IOC is running EPICS 3.13.7.  It is healthy, lots of memory, no 
CPU load, etc.  Here are the network related commands executed by the startup 
script, in case I am doing something wrong:
>###############################
># Set the default gateway
>routeAdd "0","164.54.160.1"
># The following line eliminates "cksum: out of data" messages due to DHCP
>proxyPortFwdOff(67)
># Define locations for logging and for APS EPICS process variables
>putenv("EPICS_IOC_LOG_INET=164.54.160.82")
>putenv("EPICS_CA_AUTO_ADDR_LIST=NO")
>putenv("EPICS_CA_ADDR_LIST=164.54.160.127")
>##############################
>
>Note that even in EPICS 3.13 we have always had problems with PVs in remote 
IOCs taking a long time (order of one minute) to connect to seq programs after 
iocInit.  We also see similar error messages to those above, but the PVs 
always eventually did connect.  In 3.14 they never connect.  Andrew Johnson 
told me today that they are seeing similar things on 3.13.  I've been meaning 
to report this/track it down for quite a while!
>
>Mark

Carl Lionberger
SNS Controls Group
(865) 574-7636


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