Re: [ros-users] ROS cpu load

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Author: Cedric Pradalier
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To: ros-users
Subject: Re: [ros-users] ROS cpu load
On 07/31/10 13:11, Cedric Pradalier wrote:
>
> To continue on my fight against overhead, I've had good performance
> improvement of rosout by replacing all the timeout argument in the
> CallbackQueue::callAvailable and CallbackQueue::callOne from 0.01s to
> 0.1s.
> Now my rosout is really sitting in a corner doing nothing while I'm
> not logging.
>
> Can you foresee any drawbacks from this change?


And the final touch to make roscore behave: in package roslaunch, file
src/roslaunch/pmon.py:570
replacing time.sleep(0.01) with time.sleep(0.1) makes roscore use less
than 1% cpu, and AFAICS just slows down a little the process respawn
mechanism.

I don't think I will optimise farther for now. In summary, applying all
the changes in this thread brings my set of core processes (roscore,
rosmaster, rosout, some serial data gatherer/publisher) from a total of
20% cpu load, to 5-6%, without any noticeable performance loss so far.

HTH

--
Dr. Cedric Pradalier
http://www.asl.ethz.ch/people/cedricp