[evlatests] Herc A demo observation disaster?

[Sonja Vrcic]

Ken Sowinski wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Rick Perley wrote:
>
>>     One of the A-configuration Herc A demo project SBs was run yesterday
>> evening.
>>
>>     However ... the archive states the file is only 14 GB -- way too
>> small for 8 hours' observing with 3 second averaging.  In reviewing the
>> scan listing, I see that the 'on source' and 'integration' times are all
>> zero, starting at 0:13:30 -- only 52 minutes after the start of the
>> observation.  This certainly accounts for the small file size.
>>
>>     So ... where did the rest of the data go?
> I spoke with Sonja about this.  From examining the crumbs of
> evidence this looks like the usual CM/executor timing issue
> we have seen for a long time.  Barry has commited a change
> to the executor which implements Sonja's recommendation for
> how to avoid this.  If we want this to go away we should do
> an executor update soon.
Detailed  inspection of Cm log files confirms that this was the case.
Sonja
>
> Meanwhile I see no reason not to continue using the latest
> version of CM.
>