RE: Re: TWO PXI 6070E have problems to adquire at high speed

Hi all,

The memory buffer we are telling comedi to use (using --read-buffer option of comedi_config) is 8MB (--read-buffer 8192)

Any help more?

Thanks


-- Daniel Machón [damachon_at_eresmas.net] --

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Remitente: Frank Mori Hess fmhess_at_users.sourceforge.net
Destinatario: damachon_at_eresmas.net, comedi_at_comedi.org
Fecha: Sábado, Noviembre 29, 2003  0:01am
Asunto: Re: TWO PXI 6070E have problems to adquire at high speed

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>On Friday 28 November 2003 07:05 am, David wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> We have in our system REDHAT 9, kernel 2.4.22 vanila, patch adeos,  
>RTAI> 24.1.12, and the latest CVS comedi version. We are testing comedi
>> adquiring at 1.25Ms/s. If we use only one PXI 6070E card we have  
>not any
>> problem to adquire at that speed, but when we use two cards (PXI  
>6070E)> the adquisition of one of the cards is stopped (both cards  
>at 1.25Ms/s).
>> The other card continues working perfectly.
>>
>> We think that comedi moves data to their buffer when one card has a
>> number of samples greater than PAGE_SIZE (4096) ¿is it right?
>>
>> If that is true, we think too, that increasing the number of  
>samples to
>> read at a time (for example 16K instead of 4K) we will  improve the
>> system, and adquiring from two cards at 1.25Ms/s each, will work.
>> ¿what do you think about that idea?
>
>It seems unlikely to me that the board's hardware fifos are  
>overflowing,  
>since they are being emptied by their pci chips using dma.  How big  
>a  
>memory buffer are you telling comedi to use (see the --read-buffer  
>option  
>of comedi_config)?
>
>- --  
>Frank
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Received on 2003-11-30Z08:33:47