Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] message queue

[Eric Blossom]

On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:59:41PM -0700, shesh wrote:
> 
> hi, 
>    i am working on a spectrum sense code. in the following statement
>                         self.msgq = gr.msg_queue(16) 
>     is there any significance for the number 16?does changing this number
> affect the performance of the code?
>     kindly help.

It sets the limit to the number of messages in the queue.  0 means no limit.
If the queue is full, an attempt to add a message will block until
there's room.  (Note also that gr_message_sink also has an option
that will have it drop messages if the message queue is full.)

Eric