Re: [Emc-users] Latency test

2012-03-31 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/3/31 Alwyn McLeod mcleod.al...@gmail.com: When I run the latency test, I get Base thread jitter of 932659. In the config file the max. is set at 50,000. What You set in INI file is the length of the particular thread. I guess that length of base thread is set at 50'000 ns and length of

Re: [Emc-users] Max Jitter

2012-03-31 Thread Jan de Kruyf
Good people, I was maybe a bit snappy last night, as I came just out of one of those african music and drama things that take all of you (I participated) Off course the cnclinux group has discovered some excellent boards over time. And off course the RTAI modified kernel is probably the fastest

Re: [Emc-users] Latency test

2012-03-31 Thread Erik Friesen
The simple explanation is that is a lot of jitter. Look here to debug - http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?TroubleShooting I had a graphics card that ran at 200,000 when using the manufacturer 3d driver, but down to 40,000 with software 3d. On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 2:40 AM, Viesturs Lācis

Re: [Emc-users] Trajectory planning and other topics from a, EMC(LinuxCNC) newbie (TheNewbie)

2012-03-31 Thread cogoman
From: Viesturs L?cis viesturs.la...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Emc-users] This will run in a little off-topic by me... You can run heavy duty machines with steppers, but then the performance will suffer - You will have to leave big safety margin in terms of load to motors (either move slower or

Re: [Emc-users] Trajectory planning and other topics from a, EMC(LinuxCNC) newbie (TheNewbie)

2012-03-31 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/3/31 cogoman cogo...@optimum.net: From: Viesturs L?cis viesturs.la...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Emc-users] This will run in a little off-topic by me... You can run heavy duty machines with steppers, but then the performance will suffer - You will have to leave big safety margin in terms of

Re: [Emc-users] Latency test

2012-03-31 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 08:00 +0200, Alwyn McLeod wrote: When I run the latency test, I get Base thread jitter of 932659. In the config file the max. is set at 50,000. When I load EMC2 I get a message Unexpected real time delay: check dmesg for details' as well RTAPI: ERROR:Unexpected

Re: [Emc-users] Latency test

2012-03-31 Thread Eric Keller
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Alwyn McLeod mcleod.al...@gmail.comwrote: When I run the latency test, I get Base thread jitter of 932659. In the config file the max. is set at 50,000. Being a novice as far as Ubuntu is concerned, I am at a loss as to how I can resolve these issues. Any

Re: [Emc-users] Latency test

2012-03-31 Thread gene heskett
On Saturday, March 31, 2012 01:32:39 PM Kirk Wallace did opine: On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 08:00 +0200, Alwyn McLeod wrote: When I run the latency test, I get Base thread jitter of 932659. In the config file the max. is set at 50,000. When I load EMC2 I get a message Unexpected real time

Re: [Emc-users] Trajectory planning and other topics from a, EMC(LinuxCNC) newbie (TheNewbie)

2012-03-31 Thread Dave
On 3/31/2012 12:09 PM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: 2012/3/31 cogomancogo...@optimum.net: From: Viesturs L?cisviesturs.la...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Emc-users] This will run in a little off-topic by me... You can run heavy duty machines with steppers, but then the performance will

[Emc-users] Smoothie Project

2012-03-31 Thread Tim James
I have been following the various discussions and have been trying to connect to the Smoothie Project link to find out more information but the link does not seem to work. Can anybody help please ? Tim James Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device

Re: [Emc-users] Max Jitter

2012-03-31 Thread Jeshua Lacock
On Mar 30, 2012, at 1:59 PM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: My googling results tell, that You should edit /etc/default/grub For that You will need root privileges. You can do that by running in terminal this command: sudo gedit Text editor will be opened, click open and find the file. There is

Re: [Emc-users] Trajectory planning and other topics from a, EMC(LinuxCNC) newbie (TheNewbie)

2012-03-31 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012, Dave wrote: Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:20:19 -0500 From: Dave e...@dc9.tzo.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Trajectory

Re: [Emc-users] Smoothie Project

2012-03-31 Thread Kirk Wallace
On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 18:39 +, Tim James wrote: I have been following the various discussions and have been trying to connect to the Smoothie Project link to find out more information but the link does not seem to work. Can anybody help please ? This works for me: http://smoothieware.org/

Re: [Emc-users] Max Jitter

2012-03-31 Thread Michael Haberler
indirectly. Start the System monitor. It should show more than one CPU. Start several, processes, or a build. If one CPU stays at no load, you have an isolated CPU. -m Am 31.03.2012 um 20:42 schrieb Jeshua Lacock: On Mar 30, 2012, at 1:59 PM, Viesturs Lācis wrote: My googling results

[Emc-users] May be of Interest

2012-03-31 Thread Kirk Wallace
I found this: http://www.bitmuster.org/projects/emc.html the thing that comes to mind, considering the rev date, how it seems fairly significant, and recent questions on the list, it's a little surprising that this hasn't hit the wiki or been on the lists. Am I watching the wrong channels? Might