Re: BESSRC experience with Spec/Epics

[Tim Mooney <mooney@aps.anl.gov>]

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Guy Jennings wrote:
> 
> On 11/19/02 11:30 PM, 'Tim Mooney' <mooney@aps.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Can you tell me how to make the problems happen on purpose, so I can try
> > to
> > collect some data on them?
> 
> I don't know any easy way to make it happen on purpose...
> 
> It seems to happen about once a week and may be more likely if you have many
> epics motors and other epics devices configured in spec.  It usually happens
> when leaving the config screen (or when calling the reconfig macro
> explicitly.   Often, if you get a failure for a particular PV on a motor,
> and then immediately call reconfig again, you'll see a failure on another PV
> on the same motor, or a 'nearby' motor.    However, on all the times that I
> tried to reproduce the problem explicitly, by writing a loop macro that
> calls reconfig repeatedly, then it didn't manifest itself.  Perhaps if such
> a macro were left running for a week or so?

Are you talking about the timeout problem?  The problem I heard about involved
a motor taking off and just running until it hit a limit switch.

Tim