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Subject: Re: CA wishlist :)
From: Andrew Johnson <[email protected]>
To: Dirk Zimoch <[email protected]>
Cc: EPICS Techtalk <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:53:42 -0600
Dirk Zimoch wrote:

I strongly agree in one point: This max array size thing is a pain. Especially for generic applications, such as the gateway, it is simply impossible to know the maximal array length in advance.

Since the actual maximum array size that can be sent is the smallest of both the client and server's settings it's possible to set this to a giant number on your client workstations and gateways where you usually have the least idea what to set it to (our Unix shell configuration sets this at the same time as setting EPICS_HOST_ARCH). For each IOC you still have to work out how big your largest array field is and set the value appropriately, but at least this limits the scope of the problem.

I know Jeff has plans for removing this limit in the future, but it relies on completely replacing GDD with Data Access, which is a fairly major change.

- Andrew
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CA wishlist :) Heinrich du Toit
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