On Wednesday 19 March 2008, Jon Elson wrote:
>John Kasunich wrote:
>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>In re the rtapi and unexpected realtime delay issues, I experimented some
>>> this afternoon with my base thread which was set at 78000ns when I
>>> started, reducing it to 38000ns for the last test, running most of the
>>> stuff in the nc_files dir to test, and never did see another error AFTER
>>> the startup, even when running at 200% speeds here.
>>
>> You never will.
>>
>> The realtime delay error message is printed only once, the first time
>> EMC notices a delay.  We don't print it every time because if you have
>> your period set too low, or you have a computer with bad realtime
>> issues, you could get hundreds or thousands of those messages every
>> second.
>>
>> Only printing the message once solves that problem, but it means that
>> you really don't know how often you are getting a delay.  But DON'T
>> think just because you get it only once that it is happening only once.
>
>Yes.  There is a HAL pin that reports the total number of these
>errors, motion.servo.overruns, but it seems to need a debug
>level to be set to export that pin.  Do you know what that debug
>level is?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jon

And that would explain why I see zero there, always.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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