[evlatests] Subarray 2 problems
Walter Brisken
wbrisken at nrao.edu
Sun Nov 18 15:04:26 EST 2007
I've transcribed a good portion of the idcaf log from Vivek's recent test
showing odd labeling on subarray 2. There is a common theme with every
scan change: IDCAF gets 5 relevant documents from the executor:
Document start time Document type Document contents
------------------- ------------- -----------------
54419.2290162037 Observation 140EVLTSTe.54419.217668495374
= 05:29:47.000 ORION KK 3333
54419.2290162037 VlaCorrelatorMode 5.0 sec mode 4 3333
= 05:29:47.000
54419.2290162037 Observation 140EVLTSTe.54419.217668495374
= 05:29:47.000 0532+075 KK 2222
54419.2290162037 Observation 140EVLTSTe.54419.217668495374
= 05:29:47.000 ORION KK 3333
54419.2290162037 Observation 140EVLTSTv.54419.218175358794
= 05:29:47.000 ORION QQ 3333
Every scan change has the same set. In the group is a new correlator mode
(since that changed on most scan changes in this file), One new Observe
document for subarray 1 (as expected), but _3_ Obs documents for subarray
2, all with the same start time, but with different instructions. IDCAF
sometimes chooses incorrectly from the three choices. This can explain
everything Vivek complains about, I think. In this case unexpected
frequency labels get generated because the bandwidth code is not matched
to the scan (making multiple freqids, where only 1 is expected).
Currently IDCAF cannot cope with conflicting documents. I don't know of
any way to change it such that correct document is always selected.
In my inspections, I see one case of a "first integration" problem after
the integration time is changed. I'll look into this since this is
clearly an IDCAF issue.
-Walter
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