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Subject: Re: IocLogInit
From: Andrew Johnson <[email protected]>
To: Gasper Jansa <[email protected]>
Cc: Tech Talk <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:22:59 -0500
Gasper Jansa wrote:

I have noticed that if I set EPICS_IOC_LOG_INET to lets say 10.17.10.241 and if I am on a network from which this IP can not be reached cpu goes to 100% and stays there if I start logging with command iocLogInit from startup script. I also get "Network unreachable" error.

I am experiencing this on a debian and scientific linux.

After a little investigation I can replicate your problem on FC4, and I see that this behaviour of the log client is different if you have a default route set on the machine (which is probably how most developer linux workstations are configured).


With no default route (no line for the destination 0.0.0.0 in the output from 'netstat -nr') I get your behaviour:

epics> epicsEnvSet EPICS_IOC_LOG_INET 192.168.123.45
epics> iocLogInit
log client: unable to connect to "192.168.123.45:7004" because 101="Network is unreachable"
log client: unable to connect to "192.168.123.45:7004" for 2.0 seconds
epics> iocLogShow
log client: disconnected from log server at "192.168.123.45:7004"

The CPU usage on the machine then pegs at 100%.


However, with a default route installed (a destination of 0.0.0.0 listed in the output from 'netstat -nr') I get this instead:

epics> epicsEnvSet EPICS_IOC_LOG_INET 192.168.123.45
epics> iocLogInit
log client: unable to connect to "192.168.123.45:7004" for 2.0 seconds
epics> iocLogShow
log client: disconnected from log server at "192.168.123.45:7004"

After a while I also get this message:


log client: unable to connect to "192.168.123.45:7004" because 110="Connection timed out"

The machine CPU usage remains normal in this case.


I would therefore recommend that you set a default route on your IOC machine as a workaround until we get a fix into Base.

The iocLogShow command I used above is not callable from the iocsh in any released version of Base; I just added the relevent iocsh table entries that make it callable and committed the changes to CVS.


Do any of the other EPICS core developers claim ownership of the src/libCom/logClient/logClient.c code, which is where the problem lies? The 101 value above would appear to be ENETUNREACH which is not mentioned in any osdSock.h file and not expected by the code in logClientConnect(). I might expect similar kinds of problems to appear if someone mentions an unreachable IP address in any of the network configuration settings such as EPICS_CA_ADDR_LIST, but I haven't tried them to confirm that.


- Andrew
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