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Subject: Re: Variable scan rate
From: Steven Hartman <[email protected]>
To: Emmanuel Mayssat <[email protected]>
Cc: EPICS tech-talk <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 14:21:06 -0500 (EST)
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Emmanuel Mayssat wrote:

> 1/ debugging purpose
> 	Debugging messages are displayed each time the record
> 	is processed. When my Ioc crashes I do not want to be flooded
> 	with debugging information. Ultimately I want to see only the
> 	debug info of the record that crashed the ioc.

Setting a record to passive for debugging purposes can be useful. But I
would be wary of setting such a monitoring record to passive
(un-processed) as its default state. This can potentially be confusing to
the operator or others looking at the data in the future. At minimum, I
would use the alarm state to flag the record as INVALID and make sure the
display manager indicates the alarm state.

> 2/ overload of an ioc
> 	I want to put as many devices on an ioc as possible
> 	so I need to minimize record processing.
> 	That is one way to improve uptime and lower cost
> 	of control system
> 3/ Bus conflict
> 	There are also bus conflict I want to minimize
> 	(several devices on same gpib bus, etc. )

What is to prevent the overload or the bus conflict from occuring at the
most critical time, i.e. when many things are changing and your scan rates
are all at their maximum?


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Steve Hartman
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Duke Free Electron Laser Laboratory

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