 26 Dec 2018, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, Partial refactoring of ODB code
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> One additional comment: In the 90's when I developed this code, locking was expensive.
> Now the world has changed, we can do almost a million locks a second.
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26 Dec 2018, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, bm_receive_event timeout in ROME
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> There is a bug report in the ROME repository which says bm_receive_event timeouts.
> https://bitbucket.org/muegamma/rome3/issues/8/rome-with-midas-produces-timeout-after
> Does anybody have any ideas what could causing the problem ?
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26 Dec 2018, Konstantin Olchanski, Forum, Implementing MIDAS on a Satellite
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> Thank you for your comment Stefan. We do have some hardware resources on the board such as RAM, ROM and
> Flash storage so we wouldn't necessarily have to virtualize everything. Ideally we would like a
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26 Dec 2018, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, Self-resetting alarm class
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> > If you run an external script anyway, you can also call "odbedit -c alarm" to
> > reset all alarms. Or you could try to set the "Triggered" entry of that certain
> > alarm to 0 (again, with odbedit), that could also work.
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27 Dec 2018, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, mhttpd - custom page - RHEL/Fedora
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> I still strongly believe that mhttpd should not serve arbitrary files (only serve files explicitly listed in ODB) or as next best option,
> only serve files from subdirectories explicitly listed in ODB.
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 28 Dec 2018, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, note on the midas event buffer code, part 1
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In this technical note, I write down the workings of the midas event buffer code, the path
that events travel from the frontend to the SYSTEM buffer to mlogger (and to disk).
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28 Dec 2018, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, note on the midas event buffer code, part 2, bm_send_event()
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> In this technical note, I write down the workings of the midas event buffer code
> we need to understand and write down how the event buffer code works.
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28 Dec 2018, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, note on the midas event buffer code, part 3, rpc_send_event()
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> In this technical note, I write down the workings of the midas event buffer code
> we need to understand and write down how the event buffer code works.
> bm_send_event() does this ...
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28 Dec 2018, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, note on the midas event buffer code, part 4, reading from event buffer
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> > In this technical note, I write down the workings of the midas event buffer code
> > we need to understand and write down how the event buffer code works.
> > bm_send_event() does this ...
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02 Jan 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, note on the midas event buffer code, part 5, bm_read_buffer()
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> > > In this technical note, I write down the workings of the midas event buffer code
> > > we need to understand and write down how the event buffer code works.
> > > bm_send_event() does this ...
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02 Jan 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, note on the midas event buffer code, part 6, reading events through the mserver
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> > > > In this technical note, I write down the workings of the midas event buffer code
> > > > we need to understand and write down how the event buffer code works.
> > > > bm_send_event() does this ...
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03 Jan 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, note on the midas event buffer code, part 7, event buffer polling frequencies
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> > > > > In this technical note, I write down the workings of the midas event buffer code
> > > > > we need to understand and write down how the event buffer code works.
> > > > > bm_send_event() does this ...
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03 Jan 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, note on the midas event buffer code, part 8, writer and reader communications
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> > > > > > In this technical note, I write down the workings of the midas event buffer code
Event buffer readers and writers need to communicate following information:
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10 Jan 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, note on the midas event buffer code, part 8, writer and reader communications
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> > > > > > > In this technical note, I write down the workings of the midas event buffer code
> Event buffer readers and writers need to communicate following information:
>
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10 Jan 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, removal of cm_watchdog()
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cm_watchdog() has been removed from the latest midas sources. The watchdog functions performed by cm_watchdog() were
moved to cm_yield() - those are - maintaining odb and event buffer "last active" timestamps and checking for and removing of
timed-out clients.
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18 Jan 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Bug Report, Custom script with new MIDAS
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> I am having difficulty getting the custom scripts to work within the updated MIDAS. Before the
> update I was using something like :
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18 Jan 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, bitbucket issue tracker "feature"
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It turns out the bitbucket issue tracker has a feature - I cannot make it automatically add me
to the watcher list of all new issues.
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21 Jan 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, removal of cm_watchdog()
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> cm_watchdog() has been removed from the latest midas sources
> Removal of cm_watchdog() solves many problems in the midas code base:
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24 Jan 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Info, removal of cm_watchdog()
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> > cm_watchdog() has been removed from the latest midas sources
> > Removal of cm_watchdog() solves many problems in the midas code base:
> Removal of cm_watchdog() creates new problems:
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24 Jan 2019, Konstantin Olchanski, Suggestion, json rpc API for history data
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> For us it would be a handy feature if history data could be requested directly
> from a custom page (time range or run based intervals) . Here I am not talking
> about history plots but I am talking about recorded time series data. This way
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