This week Jonathan Hanks and I have been trying to diagnose why the daqd has been unstable in the configuration used by the 40m, with data concentrator (dc) and frame writer (fw) in the same process (referred to generically as 'fb').  Jonathan has been digging into the core dumps and source to try to figure out what's going on, but he hasn't come up with anything concrete yet.

As an alternative, we've started experimenting with a daqd configuration with the dc and fw components running in separate processes, with communication over the local loopback interface.  The separate dc/fw process model more closely matches the configuration at the sites, although the sites put dc and fwprocesses on different physical machines.  Our experimentation thus far seems to indicate that this configuration is stable, although we haven't yet tested it with the full configuration, which is what I'm attempting to do now.

Unfortunately I'm having trouble with the mx_stream communication between the front ends and the dc process.  The dc does not appear to be receiving the streams from the front ends and is producing a '0xbad' status message for each.  I'm investigating.