line scan camera with ADAravis driver skips frames

[Katie Matusik via Tech-talk <tech-talk@aps.anl.gov>]

Hi everyone,

The camera that I am connecting to via GigE is a Basler Racer line scan camera (12288 x 1 px) model raL12288-8gm. When I run the camera with binning 1x1 and 8-bit pixel format at 1kHz (slowest frame rate), the driver keeps up until about 30K frames, at which point I start accumulating frame failures and underruns. With a higher frame rate, it happens almost immediately. 

I am using the latest areaDetector-master with ADAravis R1-3 and ADGenICam-master. I am running this IOC in a Docker using the host network which has MTU set to 9000. I made a slight adjustment to the ADAravis.cpp driver regarding setting the packet size to jumbo packets rather than determining optimum packet size, which was interfering with my network (lines 379-381 in ADAravis.cpp):

377     if (ARV_IS_GV_DEVICE(this->device)) {
378         // Automatically determine optimum packet size
379 //        arv_gv_device_auto_packet_size(ARV_GV_DEVICE(this->device));
380         // Uncomment this line to set jumbo packets
381         arv_gv_device_set_packet_size(ARV_GV_DEVICE(this->device), 9000);
382     }

I'm attaching snapshots of my camera features settings as well as my st.cmd and st.cmd.base files. Please let me know what other information you need. When I run this using the Basler pylonViewer software, I do not see these skipped frames.

Best,

Katie

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< envPaths
errlogInit(20000)

dbLoadDatabase("$(TOP)/dbd/ADAravisApp.dbd")
ADAravisApp_registerRecordDeviceDriver(pdbbase) 

# Name of camera as reported by arv-tool
epicsEnvSet("CAMERA_NAME", ${DET_IP})

# The maximum image width; used for row profiles in the NDPluginStats plugin
epicsEnvSet("XSIZE",  "12288")

# The maximum image height; used for column profiles in the NDPluginStats plugin
epicsEnvSet("YSIZE",  "1")

# Define NELEMENTS to be enough for a 12288x1x3 (color) image
epicsEnvSet("NELEMENTS", "40000")

# Enable register caching
epicsEnvSet("ENABLE_CACHING", "1")

# The database file
epicsEnvSet("GENICAM_DB_FILE", "$(ADGENICAM)/GenICamApp/Db/Basler.template")

< st.cmd.base

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# Prefix for all records
epicsEnvSet("PREFIX", "BASLER1:")

# The port name for the detector
epicsEnvSet("PORT", "BASLER")
# Really large queue so we can stream to disk at full camera speed
epicsEnvSet("QSIZE",  "2000")   
# The maximum number of time series points in the NDPluginStats plugin
epicsEnvSet("NCHANS", "2048")
# The maximum number of frames buffered in the NDPluginCircularBuff plugin
epicsEnvSet("CBUFFS", "500")
# The search path for database files
epicsEnvSet("EPICS_DB_INCLUDE_PATH", "$(ADCORE)/db:$(ADGENICAM)/db:$(ADARAVIS)/db")

# aravisConfig(const char *portName, const char *cameraName, int enableCaching, size_t maxMemory, int priority, int stackSize)
aravisConfig("$(PORT)", "$(CAMERA_NAME)", $(ENABLE_CACHING), 0, 0, 0)
asynSetTraceIOMask($(PORT), 0, 2)
#asynSetTraceMask($(PORT), 0, TRACE_ERROR|TRACEIO_DRIVER|TRACE_FLOW)
#asynSetTraceFile($(PORT), 0, "aravisDebug.txt")

# Main database
dbLoadRecords("$(ADARAVIS)/db/aravisCamera.template", "P=$(PREFIX),R=cam1:,PORT=$(PORT)")

# Load the autogenerated file of GenICam features
dbLoadRecords("$(GENICAM_DB_FILE)", "P=$(PREFIX),R=cam1:,PORT=$(PORT)")

# Create a standard arrays plugin
NDStdArraysConfigure("Image1", 5, 0, "$(PORT)", 0, 0)
# Use this line for 8-bit data only
#dbLoadRecords("$(ADCORE)/db/NDStdArrays.template", "P=$(PREFIX),R=image1:,PORT=Image1,ADDR=0,TIMEOUT=1,NDARRAY_PORT=$(PORT),TYPE=Int8,FTVL=CHAR,NELEMENTS=$(NELEMENTS)")
# Use this line for 8-bit or 16-bit data
dbLoadRecords("$(ADCORE)/db/NDStdArrays.template", "P=$(PREFIX),R=image1:,PORT=Image1,ADDR=0,TIMEOUT=1,NDARRAY_PORT=$(PORT),TYPE=Int16,FTVL=SHORT,NELEMENTS=$(NELEMENTS)")

# Load all other plugins using commonPlugins.cmd
< $(ADCORE)/iocBoot/commonPlugins.cmd
set_requestfile_path("$(ADGENICAM)/GenICamApp/Db")
set_requestfile_path("$(ADARAVIS)/aravisApp/Db")

iocInit()

# save things every thirty seconds
create_monitor_set("auto_settings.req", 30,"P=$(PREFIX)")