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Hello,

Just a quick question. I found in this forum from old topics that, to increase the number of monitoring points I could change the value of the ncaptm and this need to be done in paramx.h and must recompile and reinstall the whole code. Just wondering if it is still the case for every version? or there's a way of not recompiling it now?

If I would like to increase ncaptm, will there be any limit on the value can be given here?

Cheers,
Muhsin

Hello,

Yes, this is still true. In version 4.3, there is also a new solution, using the "cs_probes" subsystem, that does not have this limitation, but is accessible only through user subroutines/functions, and is currently used mostly by the new CDO (compatible discrete operator) subsystem which is partially in place in that version.

Actually, after finishing some work regarding parallelization of the aforementioned CDO module, I am just starting to get back to replacing the old probes system by an improved "cs_probes" system, which will not have the NCAPTM limitation, but I'll probably need a few more days (and won't have much time for this second half of August).

So, to sum things after this digression:
- you still need to change NCAPTM and recompile if you use the classical probes system
- you can already try the cs_probes system (see Doxygen documentation in 4.3), although it will change slightly between 4.3 and 5.0 (though most future changes/optimizations should be "under the hood)
-in 5.0 (which will be in beta stage late November-Early December, for a final release around April 2017), you will have a better system without this limitation, including with the GUI.

Regards,

Yvan