 01 May 2022, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, added web page for "mdump"
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> added JSON RPC for bm_receive_event()
there is a number of problems with implementing bm_receive_event() as a RPC:
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01 May 2022, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, added web page for "mdump"
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> added a web page for "mdump".
missing functions:
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02 May 2022, Stefan Ritt, Info, added web page for "mdump"
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Here are some of my thoughts:
- I volunteer to write the JavaScript midas bank decoder. Just a couple of pure javascript functions, no
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04 May 2022, Stefan Ritt, Info, added web pages for "show odb clients" and "show open records"
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Concerning the "scl" page, we are currently having a discussion. At the moment, one can
see midas clients in three different places:
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 06 May 2022, Stefan Ritt, Info, Increased timeout for program shut down
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We had the problem in our lab that a frontend took about 6 seconds to gracefully
shut down, mainly it needed to park some motors. I found that the shutdown command
had a hard-coded timeout of 5 seconds, after which the frontend gets killed, and
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08 May 2022, Stefan Ritt, Info, RO_STOPPED with triggered events
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We had issues in one of our experiment that people used RO_STOPPED in the
equipment list together with triggered events (EQ_USER). If events are sent when
a run is stopped, this leads to many unexpected results, so I added a check in
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08 May 2022, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, RO_STOPPED with triggered events
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> If events are sent when a run is stopped, this leads to many unexpected results
I think we need to understand what these unexpected results are.
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08 May 2022, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, RO_STOPPED with triggered events
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> some old front-end are not running any more since they do use RO_ALWAYS together with
triggered events.
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13 May 2022, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, analysis of corner cases in event buffer write cache
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introduction:
to remember, bm_send_event() writes an event to the write cache, bm_flush_cache()
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16 May 2022, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, RO_STOPPED with triggered events
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> > some old front-end are not running any more since they do use RO_ALWAYS together with
> triggered events.
>
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16 May 2022, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, analysis of corner cases in event buffer write cache
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> for correct operation of bm_send_event() under all conditions we need to ...
to continue computation from last message:
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16 May 2022, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, analysis of corner cases in event buffer write cache
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> > for correct operation of bm_send_event() under all conditions we need to ...
> to continue computation from last message:
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17 May 2022, Stefan Ritt, Info, RO_STOPPED with triggered events
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> > > some old front-end are not running any more since they do use RO_ALWAYS together with
> > triggered events.
> >
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17 May 2022, Razvan Stefan Gornea, Info, MIDAS switched to C++
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Hi, I have three naive questions about this:
- have you posted somewhere this guide about converting C frontends to C++?
- it was mentioned previously that there will be a 'tag the last "C" midas', which version is it?
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17 May 2022, Ben Smith, Info, MIDAS switched to C++
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> - have you posted somewhere this guide about converting C frontends to C++?
See the instructions at:
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17 May 2022, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, MIDAS switched to C++
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> Hi, I have three naive questions about this:
all good questions, ask more of them.
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17 May 2022, Ben Smith, Info, MIDAS switched to C++
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> - have you posted somewhere this guide about converting C frontends to C++?
There's documentation in the wiki at:
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05 Aug 2022, Stefan Ritt, Info, Information for midas updates though git
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Several submodules of midas have been re-organized, so if you want to pull the
newest version, you need a
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06 Aug 2022, Stefan Ritt, Info, Improvement of odbxx API
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While the odbxx API has been successfully used since the last months, a potential
problem with large ODBs surfaced. If you have lots of data in the ODB and load it
into an object like
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08 Aug 2022, Stefan Ritt, Info, Improvement of odbxx API
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After some thought, I changed the API again and removed the flag in the constructor,
so the system now automatically choses the best algorithm depending if the client
is connected to a local or a remote API. So in all cases you use again the old syntax:
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