Re: GPIB + vxStats hangs IOC

[Benjamin Franksen <franksen@mail.bessy.de>]

Benjamin Franksen wrote:
> 
> at BESSY we currently have two IOCs which perform GPIB I/O over a HP
> E2050A LAN/GPIB gateway, using the EPICS GPIB support, currently R0-3,
> and EPICS base 3.13.6.
> 
> Both IOCs occasionally hang and need to be rebooted.
>
> [...]
> 
> For a test, I disabled the record that does the memory check. (Note that
> even though devVxStats is synchronous, records are I/O interrupt scanned
> and therefore processed by a callback task.)
> 
> The IOC now runs since Jul 31 15:32:42 and has not yet hung again. The
> last times it ran for 25, 22, and then 4 hours.

FYI: it still runs fine (memory check disabled). Occasional (manually
performed) calls to memPartInfoGet do no harm.

Ben