You can comment them out and LinuxCNC runs just fine, that tells me they are leftover bit rot.
JT On 3/30/2017 2:07 PM, John Kasunich wrote: > There was a time (in the late 1990's to early 2000's) when LinuxCNC (EMC back > then) had three realtime threads. What we now know as the base and servo > threads, and a third slower thread for the trajectory planner. Back in the > day, computers couldn't necessarily do all the trajectory planner (and > especially kinematics) math quick enough, so the planner ran at 1/10 the rate > and the output was interpolated at the servo rate. > > The third thread went away in 2004 or so when EMC2 rewrote much of the motion > controller. > > There is no mechanism for detecting unused ini file parameters, so it is > quite possible that no code has actually used the parameters you mention in > more than a decade. > > I'm not in a position to do it, but I wonder how hard it would be to grep > thru the code to see if those parameters are used? If they're not, they > should be deleted from the sample configs. > > John Kasunich > > > On Wed, Mar 29, 2017, at 05:34 PM, Joe Hildreth wrote: >> It's me again ... :-) >> >> While in the [TRAJ] section of the INI file is see the variable CYCLE_TIME = >> 0.010, but is not mentioned in the INI config documents. I am only guessing >> that this is the polling interval time for the trajectory planner but am not >> sure. Can I add this to my list? >> >> Thanks again, sorry to be a pain. >> >> Joe Hildreth >> >> ----- On Mar 29, 2017, at 3:35 PM, Joe Hildreth j...@threerivershospital.com >> wrote: >> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> I am going through the INI file of my stepper based Gantry machine and am >>> looking at the [EMCMOT] section. In this section I see two variables: >>> >>> COMM_TIMEOUT = 1.0 >>> COMM_WAIT = 0.010 >>> >>> I am guessing they have something to do with the communication times, but >>> the >>> INI Configuration section of the documentation does not mention these, and I >>> see no reference to them in the core component motion section of the >>> documentation. >>> >>> Can someone explain these to me and maybe add them to the INI config docs? >>> >>> Many thanks for your help, patience and time. >>> >>> Joe Hildreth >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >>> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Emc-users mailing list >>> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most >> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot >> _______________________________________________ >> Emc-users mailing list >> Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
