Re: Archiver Appliance stuck on initial sampling

[Ralph Lange via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>]

Hm...

@Sky: Is there an explanation for these suspiciously even numbers of PVs with pending meta info compilation and pending search requests?

Cheers,

~Ralph

On Fri, 9 Jan 2026 at 16:55, Dennis Hilhorst via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:

Hi Sky,

 

Thanks for you quick reply! Most PVs are PVA and CA. They are not submitted with a pva:// prefix, though the archiver does seem to detect they are PVA. I restarted the archiver after clearing out all data again and submitted all PVs which are not from a python softioc. They are all from a single ioc running on the same host as the archiver itself, so the subnet should be okay. I have let it run for a few hours, but it still seems to get stuck. All PVs that “may not exist” and are not in the START state are in the METAINFO_GATHERING state, though the PV’s that are currently in the METAINFO_REQUESTED state report does show 1000 PVs, but I can’t abort from there. They seem to be a rather random assortment of PVs, and I don’t see a very common theme between them besides the values that are in the report: all of them say “false” for Monitoring started, and the other values (When, Remaining, Timer Done, Events so far, storage so far and Internal State and all the MainMeta values) are all N/A, 0 or null (the initial values?).

 

The repo you posted seems to unreachable from outside your facility maybe? I will try to tune these settings after the weekend to see if they have an effect.

 

Sincerely,

 

Dennis Hilhorst