Disable RTAPI Logging

[Alexander Rössler]

We have a problem with our BeagleBone setup. The RTAPI logging is causing systemd-journal to use a big chunk of the CPU resources, in particular right after program start.

The log messages are visible by running journalctl, something along the lines of CMD 1036, code 29 and SET_LINE (sorry, I'm on a different computer). So it looks like RTAPI is printing out messages when reading the file.

Anyway, is there a way to disable or reduce the RTAPI logging?

Thanks,

Alex

[ce...@tuta.io]

Aug 8, 2019, 12:19 by al...@machinekoder.com:

> We have a problem with our BeagleBone setup. The RTAPI logging is causing systemd-journal to use a big chunk of the CPU resources, in particular right after program start.
>
> The log messages are visible by running journalctl, something along the lines of CMD 1036, code 29 and SET_LINE (sorry, I'm on a different computer). So it looks like RTAPI is printing out messages when reading the file.
>
> Anyway, is there a way to disable or reduce the RTAPI logging?
>

Hi,
what exactly do you mean by disabling? When the RTAPI message level will be set to NONE - https://github.com/machinekit/machinekit-hal/blob/master/src/rtapi/rtapi_support.c#L98-L99 <https://github.com/machinekit/machinekit-hal/blob/master/src/rtapi/rtapi_support.c#L98-L99> - it should not log the messages from RTAPI_PRINT_* function. You can then decouple the default system logger in, I think, syslog-async.c. However, maybe you mean something else.

Could you post what messages make the bulk of load?

Cern.

[Paulo Sherring]

Off topic: Hey, huge fanboy of QtQuickVcp here! Digging its source code was incredibly instructive and positive :)

Had this problem using the Machinekit/mkwrapper setup, as described here https://github.com/machinekit/Cetus/issues/21
My solution, which is a bandaid only, was to reduce logging level on the python script:

launcher.set_debug_level(5) ---
launcher.set_debug_level(1) +++

Target was BBG.

Hope that helps you.

Best regards.
Paulo Sherring.