On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 06:45 -0700, Narasimhan wrote: > k. thanks. i have i more doubt > in the tutorial http://www.ros.org/wiki/ROS/Tutorials/UnderstandingTopics > understanding topics > the command > rostopic hz /turtle1/pose as per the tutorial averages around 60hz > > but for me it averages around 64hz. is there a problem As far as I know, that just means your computer is faster than the computer used by person who wrote the tutorial. So you are getting more messages per second.