user stream.md

Image Streams

Data (images, vectors) are held in shared memory for fast read/write access. This is implemented with the ImageStreamIO library.

Inspecting streams

To view current streams on system and monitor their activity:

milk-streamCTRL

To inspect a stream sname:

milk-shmimmon sname

Logging streams to filesystem

Streams are logged as FITS files. To setup logging processes for stream sname:

milk-streamFITSlog sname pstart

Check out command use with -h option to start/stop logging and set logging parameters.

The command sets up a tmux session dedicated to managing logging, named milkFITSlogger.