Re: EPICS CA problems

[Pete Jemian <jemian@anl.gov>]

The other PC, is it also running Windows or a different OS?

Windows IOC PC: What version of Windows?

My hypothesis here is to challenge the Windows client network interface 
for some periodic reconfiguration of its service.  Just suspicious.

Pete

On 10/13/2010 11:25 AM, Tim Mooney wrote:
> Mark, is caRepeater running on the PC?
> Tim
>
> On 10/13/2010 11:14 AM, Mark Rivers wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > We are having trouble with a Windows IOC at NSLS. Here are the
> > symptoms:
> >
> > - The IOC is running fine
> >
> > - The PC running the IOC has 2 local CA clients connected to the IOC,
> > medm and IDL. Occassionally (1-2 times per day) one of these clients
> > loses its connection to the IOC. Medm screens go white, IDL says it
> > cannot find a PV, etc. This happens when the client was running fine.
> > It typically only happens to one or the other client, not to both.
> >
> > - Restarting the client fixes the problem.
> >
> > - The same 2 clients are running on another PC connected to the same
> > IOC. Those clients are always fine, they do not lose connection when a
> > client on the PC with the IOC does.
> >
> > - Looking at the resources on the Windows machine (CPU, virtual and
> > physical memory usage) does not indicate any problems.
> >
> > How do we go about figuring out what is wrong?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark

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