Is the slow behavior only when using Gazebo and rviz?  What kind of
graphics card do you have, and are the drivers properly installed?  

 

From: ros-users-bounces@code.ros.org
[mailto:ros-users-bounces@code.ros.org] On Behalf Of Alex Barvo
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 9:06 PM
To: ros-users@code.ros.org
Subject: [ros-users] c-snail

 

Hello everybody,

 

When I run Gazebo and rviz on my Athlon 64 3500 (one core) 5 year old
machine running Kubuntu Lucid 32-bit, 

the cturtle looks more like a c-snail. With CPU at 100% all the time, I
see updates in rviz about every 5 seconds. 

So it takes about 30 minutes to get across a hall of WG.

Which is not that much fun, and now I'm looking at the ways to improve
this situation:

a) Upgrade processor to dual-core AMD Athlon 64 X2 (dual core) and
install 64-bit Linux.

b) Run Gazebo on another machine

c) Get a new AMD Phenom II X6 (six cores) machine 

d) Try to mess with performance of Gazebo as outlined by John here:
http://ros-users.122217.n3.nabble.com/cpu-usage-of-Gazebo-td911241.html#
a913849

 

I searched this list for AMD/Athlon and did not find much. 

I'm guessing that's because WG uses Intel Quad Core i7 Xeon processors.

 

What would you guys recommend?

 

I understand it's hard to recommend PC hardware, but I'm asking here to
get a feel of what would be a good solution that will get me going with
ROS for another couple of years. 

 

So far my impression is ROS is highly multi-process system and probably
going to get even more so in the near future. Thus I was looking for a
CPU with more cores. Am I going in the right direction?

 

Thank you for your time,

Alex