 11 Oct 2021, Stefan Ritt, Info, Modification in the history logging system
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A requested change in the history logging system has been made today. Previously, history values were
logged with a maximum frequency (usually once per second) but also with a minimum frequency, meaning
that values were logged for example every 60 seconds, even if they did not change. This causes a problem.
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 15 Oct 2021, Stefan Ritt, Suggestion, Adding (or improving discoverability) of TID for odbset
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> Creating an ODB key requires users to know the Type ID that are defined in
> https://bitbucket.org/tmidas/midas/src/develop/include/midas.h starting at line 320.
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22 Oct 2021, Stefan Ritt, Forum, mhttpd error
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> Enable IPv6 y
Probably the IPv6 problem, see here elog:2269
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25 Oct 2021, Stefan Ritt, Forum, Logger crash
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The short term solution would be to increase the logger timeout in the ODB under
/Programs/Logger/Watchdog timeout
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10 Nov 2021, Stefan Ritt, Forum, Issue in data writing speed
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Midas uses various buffers (in the frontend, at the server side before the SYSTEM buffer, the SYSTEM buffer itself, on the
logger before writing to disk. All these buffers are in RAM and have fast access, so you can fill them pretty quickly. When
they are full, the logger writes to disk, which is slower. So I believe at 2 Hz your disk can keep up with your writing
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02 Dec 2021, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, Off-by-one in sequencer documentation
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> The documentation for the sequencer loop says:
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> <quote>
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02 Dec 2021, Stefan Ritt, Forum, Sequencer error with ODB Inc
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Thanks for reporting that bug. Indeed there was a problem in the sequencer code which I fixed now. Please try the updated develop branch.
Stefan |
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26 Jan 2022, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, Off-by-one in sequencer documentation
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> Shades/ghosts of FORTRAN. c/c++/perl/python loops loop from 0 to n-1.
for (i=1 ; i<=10 ; i++); ;-) |
28 Jan 2022, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, Writting MIDAS Events via FPGAs 
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I finally got the dummy program working. There were several issues:
- event_buffer_size was defined as 10000 * 32 MB = 320 GB, exceeding the RAM of the computer
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10 Feb 2022, Stefan Ritt, Bug Fix, ODBINC/Sequencer Issue
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I tried following script:
ODBSET /Equipment/ArduinoTestStation/Variables/_S_, 10
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10 Feb 2022, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, History plots deceiving users into thinking data is still logging
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The problem has been fixed on commit 825935dc on Oct. 2021 and runs fine since then at PSI. If TRIUMF people
agree, we can close that issue and proceed.
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14 Feb 2022, Stefan Ritt, Bug Fix, ODBINC/Sequencer Issue
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Just post here a minimal script which produces the error, so that I can try myself.
... and make sure that you have the latest develop version of midas.
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14 Feb 2022, Stefan Ritt, Bug Fix, ODBINC/Sequencer Issue
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> I noticed that "Jacob Thorne" in the forum had the same issue as us in Novemeber last
> year. Indeed we have not installed any later versions of MIDAS since then so we will
> double check we have the latest version.
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15 Feb 2022, Stefan Ritt, Bug Fix, ODBINC/Sequencer Issue
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> But the error still persists. Is there another way to update which we are missing?
The bug was definitively fixed in this modification:
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23 Feb 2022, Stefan Ritt, Info, Midas slow control event generation switched to 32-bit banks
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The midas slow control system class drivers automatically read their equipment and generate events containing midas banks. So far these have been 16-bit
banks using bk_init(). But now more and more experiments use large amount of channels, so the 16-bit address space is exceeded. Until last week, there
was even no check that this happens, leading to unpredictable crashes.
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03 Mar 2022, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, Writting MIDAS Events via FPGAs
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> Starting the frontend and starting a run works fine -> seeing events with mdump and also on the web GUI.
> But when I stop the run and try to start the next run the frontend is sending no events anymore.
> It get stuck at line 221 (if (status == DB_TIMEOUT)).
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16 Mar 2022, Stefan Ritt, Info, New midas sequencer version
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A new version of the midas sequencer has been developed and now available in the
develop/seq_eval branch. Many thanks to Lewis Van Winkle and his TinyExpr library
(https://codeplea.com/tinyexpr), which has now been integrated into the sequencer
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21 Mar 2022, Stefan Ritt, Bug Report, Python ODB watch
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What you describe is a well-known problem with the ODB. At PSI we have similar issues. There are
two approaches to solve it:
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22 Mar 2022, Stefan Ritt, Info, New midas sequencer version
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After several days of testing in various experiments, the new sequencer has
been merged into the develop branch. One more feature was added. The path to
the ODB can now contain variables which are substituted with their values.
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22 Mar 2022, Stefan Ritt, Bug Fix, fix for event buffer corruption in bm_flush_cache()
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Thanks Konstantin for your detailed description.
I wonder why we never saw this problem at PSI. Here is the reason: In multil-threaded environments, we never call bm_send_event() directly
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