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  1309   27 Jul 2017 Wes GohnSuggestionIncreasing Max Number of FrontendsBelow are the steps we used to increase the
maximum number of frontends that we could
run.
  
  1312   10 Aug 2017 Stefan RittSuggestionIncreasing Max Number of FrontendsThe sizeof checks were originally invented
by KO to check for binary compatibility between
processes attached to the same ODB and event
  
  1313   12 Aug 2017 Konstantin OlchanskiSuggestionIncreasing Max Number of FrontendsThe checks for byte sizes of critical data
structures have been added to ensure (enforce)
binary compatibility
  
  1314   13 Aug 2017 Stefan RittSuggestionIncreasing Max Number of FrontendsI agree that the binary compatibility checks
are crucial. But I kind of find it strange
if one gets an assert failure some where
  
  1315   13 Aug 2017 Konstantin OlchanskiSuggestionIncreasing Max Number of Frontends> if (sizeof(INT) != 4) then severe_error_and_stop_all_programs()

Quick reply.
  
  1316   13 Aug 2017 Stefan RittSuggestionIncreasing Max Number of FrontendsThe type INT has been defined in 1989 when
I for the first time sent data between a
16-bit MS-DOS computer and a 32-bit VAX computer
  
  2397   06 May 2022 Stefan RittInfoIncreased timeout for program shut downWe had the problem in our lab that a frontend
took about 6 seconds to gracefully 
shut down, mainly it needed to park some
  
  147   29 Sep 2004 Stefan RittInfoIncreased number of clients in midas.h, important!Due to some request several limitations like
the maximal number of clients to the ODB
have 
  
  149   03 Oct 2004 Konstantin OlchanskiInfoIncreased number of clients in midas.h, important!> It is important to note that clients compiled
> with the old limits cannot coexist with
clients compiled with the new limits. You
  
  151   03 Oct 2004 Stefan RittInfoIncreased number of clients in midas.h, important!> Stefan, to avoid confusion from crashes
caused by incompatible ODBs would it be possible
to add a "version number" to ODB,
  
  152   03 Oct 2004 Konstantin OlchanskiInfoIncreased number of clients in midas.h, important!> However, we are planning to make a new release
1.9.5 soon (next week), so can can people
tell not to "mix" 1.9.5 with pre-1.9.5 programs.
  
  153   04 Oct 2004 Stefan RittInfoIncreased number of clients in midas.h, important!> Right. We cannot fix the past, but we should
fix the future. BTW, "do not mix versions"
is hard to enforce and mismatches did, do
  
  154   08 Oct 2004 chris pearsonInfoIncreased number of clients in midas.h, important!
> > For one thing, looking at a given midas-using
executable, how do I tell what version of
  
  155   08 Oct 2004 Konstantin OlchanskiInfoIncreased number of clients in midas.h, important!>    A lot of programs have a commandline
option, such as "--version", where they return
the program version number then exit.  As
  
  302   20 Sep 2006 Stefan RittSuggestionIncrease of maximum event sizeDear midas users,

The current event size in midas is limited
  
  303   20 Sep 2006 Stefan RittSuggestionIncrease of maximum event sizeSince nobody complained so far, I increased
MAX_EVENT_SIZE to 2MB. If anybody has problems
with this setting, please report. Note that
  
  308   27 Sep 2006 Konstantin OlchanskiSuggestionIncrease of maximum event size> The current event size in midas is limited
to 512k (MAX_EVENT_SIZE in midas.h)
  
  309   28 Sep 2006 Stefan RittSuggestionIncrease of maximum event size[quote="K.O."]Now, we have per-buffer tunable
size (see message
https://ladd00.triumf.ca/elog/Midas/283)
  
  Draft   07 Jun 2017 Alberto RemotoForumIncrease MAX_EVENT_SIZEHello,

I am using a CAEN v1720 to digitise signal
  
  514   23 Oct 2008 Konstantin OlchanskiBug ReportInconsistent handling of odb and evet buffer timeoutsIn midas.c there are several places where
client last activity time stamps are checked
against the 
  
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