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11 Jan 2024 11:53 - 11 Jan 2024 14:14 #290421 by B.Reilly01
My old Optiplex bit the dust, so I picked up a very inexpensive micro PC off Amazon, a BMAX running an N4000 processor with 8gb of ram.  I had no idea if this was suitable or not, and now I'm suspecting not.   I got LinuxCNC 2.9.2 installed, but I'm getting errors.  See the attached images.  Also attached are my INI and HAL files.  Based on the histogram latency, I suspect there's still power management turned on somewhere maybe? I'm running a Mesa 7i97T and 7i76.
Last edit: 11 Jan 2024 14:14 by B.Reilly01. Reason: Actual LinuxCNC was 2.9.2, not 2.9.1

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11 Jan 2024 15:28 #290430 by PCW
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Have you disabled all power management options in the BIOS?
(C states > C1 EIST, turbo modes etc)

What are you ping times like?

First:

ping -c 4  -i .2 10.10.10.10

Then:

sudo chrt 99 ping -i .001 -q 10.10.10.10

Stop the last command after a minute or so with control C to see the stats

Also for the latency-histogram you should not use a base thread as it will
skew the results since that CPU/OS cannot handle a 25 KHz base thread.

latency-histogram --nobase --sbinsize 1000
 

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11 Jan 2024 20:05 - 11 Jan 2024 20:13 #290452 by B.Reilly01
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Ping numbers seem okay, I've turned off as much power management as I can find,although I know there are C States and I cannot find them again...  Realized the latency histogram included opening linuxcnc which probably broke it - uploaded another image
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12 Jan 2024 02:36 #290467 by PCW
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Do you still get real time errors?

The 1.1 GHz is not terribly promising, you may need to run a lower servo thread rate like 2 ms on that hardware

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12 Jan 2024 02:54 #290468 by B.Reilly01
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I think the hardware is too under powered, I'm still getting errors at 2ms.

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05 Feb 2024 23:52 - 05 Feb 2024 23:56 #292597 by B.Reilly01
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New Computer, similar problems... See the attached error warnings. This is on a new(er) Optiplex 9020 with 16gb of ram. As you can see from the latency histogram, I don't seem to have a real latency problem, but I'm still triggering these latency errors and communication errors...
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Last edit: 05 Feb 2024 23:56 by B.Reilly01. Reason: 16gb ram, not 32

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06 Feb 2024 00:57 #292602 by tommylight
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Disable "hyperthreading" in BIOS

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06 Feb 2024 01:23 #292604 by PCW
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Make sure you disable IRQ coalescing if you have an intel MAC on you motherboard

Also disable all power management, EIST, Turbo modes and Cstates >C1 in the BIOS

What ping time do you have?

 

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06 Feb 2024 02:34 - 06 Feb 2024 02:42 #292606 by B.Reilly01
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Pings are between .2 and .33 ms, 0% loss. All hyperthreading, C States, Turbomodes, etc is disabled. Only thing still on is Multi Core Support i did not see IRQ coalescing

edit:  Turning off multicore support did not help
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06 Feb 2024 02:57 #292610 by scotth
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sudo ethtool -C eno1 rx-usecs 0

Try this.

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