EPICS_PVA_NAME_SERVERS: handling reconnection

[swelborn]

I am having an intermittent issue with reconnection.

Here is my order of operations:

1. Start consumer process:

EPICS_PVA_SERVER_PORT=11111 pvapy-hpc-consumer     --input-channel pvapy:image     --output-channel pvapy:image1     --processor-file /path/to/hpcDataProcessorExample.py     --processor-class HpcDataProcessor     --report-period 10     --log-level debug

2. Start pvapy-mirror-server

EPICS_PVA_NAME_SERVERS=<IP of Consumer>:11111 EPICS_PVA_AUTO_ADDR_LIST='OFF' pvapy-mirror-server --channel-map "(pvapy:image2,pvapy:image1,pva,100)" --report-period 5

3. Start sim server

pvapy-ad-sim-server -cn pvapy:image -nx 2560 -ny 2160 -dt uint16 --disable-curses -rt 13000 -fps 50

This works just fine. I am getting updates as reported by mirror server.

Now I shut down the consumer process and bring it back up with same command. Now I am getting no new updates to the mirror server. Thinking this is an issue with reconnection, I shut down mirror server and bring it back up. No updates (0 received).

Only way I can solve this is by shutting down both consumer AND mirror server, then starting them again.

BTW sim server and consumer are on the same machine, mirror server is on a different machine.