Dave Engvall wrote: > On Oct 30, 2008, at 8:41 AM, tomp wrote: > > >> Stephen Wille Padnos wrote: >> >>> Dave Houghton wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Hello everyone >>>> >>>> I didn't get far trying to set up EMC2 >>>> >>>> I decided to do the Latency Test first, having read both sets of >>>> instructions. 'Configuration Wizard for Steeper Machines' & 'EMC2 >>>> Getting >>>> Started' both have identical instructions regarding the Latency >>>> Test. >>>> >>>> Quote "To run the test, from Applications/Accessories/Terminal >>>> (Ubuntu) open >>>> a shell and run the following command" >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Emc2$ latency-test >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> The following is what happens when I run it from terminal. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ emc2$ latency-test >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> In general, you're supposed to type only what's after the $ (or #, if >>> you're supposed to do things as root). Everything before the $ is >>> the >>> prompt printed by the terminal program. So you should be typing only >>> "latency-test" (without the quotes). >>> >>> There should be a "conventions used in this manual" section >>> somewhere, >>> but I'm not sure exactly where it is (if it does exist). >>> - Steve >>> >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> ---- >>> This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's >>> challenge >>> Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win >>> great prizes >>> Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in >>> the world >>> http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Emc-users mailing list >>> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >>> >>> >>> >> Dave, >> its a good idea to run the tests >> please run it for at least a day, then evaluate & report the results. >> >> i found suitable results with one and two hour tests >> but unnacceptable results after a day >> and horrible results after returning from a week trip. >> >> your hardware will vary the results of course >> >> i think not many people run the tests as long as a real cnc control is >> run ( forever ;) >> >> best of luck >> tomp >> > > Hi, > Interesting idea to run for a long time. My numbers get bad enough > even in a short time. > I've installed the patched .ko for Ubuntu 6.06 smi and that improved > things greatly. > However, I'm still getting realtime messages. Can someone point me to > a checklist of other things to suppress and how to do it? > Many thanks in advance. > > Dave > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> --- >> This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's >> challenge >> Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win >> great prizes >> Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in >> the world >> http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-users mailing list >> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > > Dave thanks i didnt know there was a patched smi module it seemed the thread said it was handled by a bios setting thanks, i'll see if that helps
otherwise, i used the latency killer page from rtai http://www.rtai.dk/cgi-bin/gratiswiki.pl?Latency_Killer regards TomP ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
