Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] Newbie question on unusually high latency when reading from msgq in oscilloscope example

[Johnathan Corgan]

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:22 AM, Rohan Narayana Murty
<address@hidden> wrote:

> I am am new to the gnuradio system and I have a USRP1 board running
> gnuradio-3.0.2 (I have a box that was setup with this older version).

There are numerous identified bugs in this release that have been
fixed along the way.  If possible, I'd recommend upgrading to the
latest stable release, 3.1.3.

> I modified the usrp_oscope.py and scopesink.py code to run without the gui
> (files attached). I then decided to measure the time taken to retrieve a
> message from the msgq. I find that the time taken (at a decimrate of 256,
> 128, or 64) to get a single msg from the msgq (using msgq.delete_head()) to
> be anywhere between 30 - 60ms. This seems to be particularly high. I do have
> USB 2.0 on my machine. I also tried this with different fusb_nlocks and
> fusb_block_size params but I still get the same delay.

This is not an error.  The flowgraph generates FFT vectors by default
at 15 frames per second.  This is every 66 ms.  Depending on whether
one is already in the message queue when you query it, you will get a
delay up to this amount of time.

-Johnathan