On Thursday, September 09, 2010 11:54:04 am Gene Heskett did opine: > Greetings; > > I just took a few minutes to play with it, using the same configs from > the 2.3.6? install I had before, and two things are glaringly obvious. > > 1, I either need to throw about 10 times the cpu at 2.4.3 than 2.3.6 > needed, or something is pretty badly miss-configured. > > Having it run the logo code, cutting air, the backplot only gets updated > about once a second, ditto for the code display in the bottom of the > screen, skipping from having line 317 highlighted, to 328 on the next > screen update. Hitting the stop button takes about 2 seconds to > recognize the mouse click, and after the machine is stopped, I hit F5 > and entered g0z0y0x0. It moved back alright, but took about a second > after I hit enter to start the move. The backplot showed two more > snapshots of the motion after the motors had stopped at 0,0,0, finally > arriving at 0,0,0 on the third screen update after the motors stopped.. > > This is an XP1400 athlon running at 1.6 ghz, half a gig of ram, using > the radeon (spit) driver on an ATI 9200SE card. > > The BASE_PERIOD etc: > [EMCMOT] > EMCMOT = motmod > COMM_TIMEOUT = 1.0 > COMM_WAIT = 0.010 > BASE_PERIOD = 58000 > SERVO_PERIOD = 1000000 > > This is quite conservative IMO as 2.3.6 could, with less lag than I'm > seeing now, run down to the 28000 range, but 58000 still allows more > steps than my motors can handle. > > Is there that much diff in the expected abilities between these two > versions? > > If its going to take more iron to run this, how about a suggestion for a > newer motherboard, video card etc that can do all this in real time? > > Thanks guys.
Ping? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) I'm wearing PAMPERS!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net Dev2Dev email is sponsored by: Show off your parallel programming skills. Enter the Intel(R) Threading Challenge 2010. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-thread-sfd _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
