Re: [Emc-users] EMC list troubles, and thanks, Gene Heskett!

2008-03-20 Thread Gary Fixler
You know, I'm not quite sure why I didn't simply decide to use Gmail from the start. I use it for my main address these days, and love having everything available wherever I go. I've already wanted several times to ask a question as it occurred to me at work, and couldn't, as I'd downloaded the

Re: [Emc-users] EMC list troubles, and thanks, Gene Heskett!

2008-03-19 Thread Rob Jansen
Gary, I also have problems with the mail servers (from sourceforge that is). For some reason, most of my mails I write through Thunderbird arrive with a normal delay but last Sunday I wrote an email (Re on How do I calculate leadscrew push/pull forces? but that mail only arrived 2 days later.

Re: [Emc-users] EMC list troubles, and thanks, Gene Heskett!

2008-03-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: [snip] 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.

Re: [Emc-users] EMC list troubles, and thanks, Gene Heskett!

2008-03-19 Thread Jeff Epler
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 01:55:07AM -0400, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: It's hard to tell what the ideal base period is. Stepconf is probably choosing something that will work for whatever scaling and max velocities you've chosen. I don't know if it takes PWM period/resolution into account

Re: [Emc-users] EMC list troubles, and thanks, Gene Heskett!

2008-03-19 Thread Jon Elson
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,

Re: [Emc-users] EMC list troubles, and thanks, Gene Heskett!

2008-03-19 Thread Jon Elson
Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: (I actually traced a large, periodic RT bump to kjournald on one setup)... Yow, how do you fix that? Jon - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R)

Re: [Emc-users] EMC list troubles, and thanks, Gene Heskett!

2008-03-19 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Jon Elson wrote: [snip] 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? I don't think there's any specific debug level for the pin to

Re: [Emc-users] EMC list troubles, and thanks, Gene Heskett!

2008-03-19 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Jeff Epler wrote: On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 01:55:07AM -0400, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: It's hard to tell what the ideal base period is. Stepconf is probably choosing something that will work for whatever scaling and max velocities you've chosen. I don't know if it takes PWM

Re: [Emc-users] EMC list troubles, and thanks, Gene Heskett!

2008-03-19 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Jon Elson wrote: Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: (I actually traced a large, periodic RT bump to kjournald on one setup)... Yow, how do you fix that? I used ext2 on those systems, which doesn't do journaling. They're headless and flash-disk based, so I just changed them to mount /

Re: [Emc-users] EMC list troubles, and thanks, Gene Heskett!

2008-03-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: Jon Elson wrote: Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: (I actually traced a large, periodic RT bump to kjournald on one setup)... Yow, how do you fix that? I used ext2 on those systems, which doesn't do journaling. They're headless and flash-disk

Re: [Emc-users] EMC list troubles, and thanks, Gene Heskett!

2008-03-19 Thread Gene Heskett
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

Re: [Emc-users] EMC list troubles, and thanks, Gene Heskett!

2008-03-19 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Gene Heskett wrote: [snip] 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,

Re: [Emc-users] EMC list troubles, and thanks, Gene Heskett!

2008-03-19 Thread Gene Heskett
On Wednesday 19 March 2008, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: [snip] 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

Re: [Emc-users] EMC list troubles, and thanks, Gene Heskett!

2008-03-19 Thread Gary Fixler
It sounds like you're having the opposite problem, able to send through Thunderbird, and not the web service. At any rate, I'm much more interested in joining the real festivities in this group, and learning EMC a lot better, so now that I have Gmail up and working, I'm going to leave well-enough

[Emc-users] EMC list troubles, and thanks, Gene Heskett!

2008-03-18 Thread Gary Fixler
I set up an account for this list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - through my host, but couldn't reply to the confirmation email from Thunderbird on Linux at home. It would send, and go into my outbox, but nothing would ever come of it. I had to click through to the site (from Thunderbird), and confirm it

Re: [Emc-users] EMC list troubles, and thanks, Gene Heskett!

2008-03-18 Thread Eric H. Johnson
Gary, Some band width providers will block socket 25 as a measure to cut down on spam. When you receive mail, that goes through another service (POP3 is the most common) which is on a different port (110 for POP). This can explain why you are able to receive, but not send. The way to test this is

Re: [Emc-users] EMC list troubles, and thanks, Gene Heskett!

2008-03-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 18 March 2008, Gary Fixler wrote: I set up an account for this list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - through my host, but couldn't reply to the confirmation email from Thunderbird on Linux at home. It would send, and go into my outbox, but nothing would ever come of it. I had to click through to

Re: [Emc-users] EMC list troubles, and thanks, Gene Heskett!

2008-03-18 Thread John Kasunich
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

Re: [Emc-users] EMC list troubles, and thanks, Gene Heskett!

2008-03-18 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 18 March 2008, 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

Re: [Emc-users] EMC list troubles, and thanks, Gene Heskett!

2008-03-18 Thread Stephen Wille Padnos
Gene Heskett wrote: [snip] 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. Regards, John Kasunich Hummm, much food for