Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] ofdm reception affected by python threading?

[Eric Blossom]

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 04:10:12PM -0700, Veljko Pejovic wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> Thanks for the tip. I tried it out on a faster machine, and I observed
> no such problems. The first machine that produces this problem has a
> single core 2.8GHz CPU and the second one, which works fine, has a
> dual core Intel Atom D510, both machines have 2GB of RAM each. I
> should note that the faster machine also has a better GIgEthernet
> card. Interestingly, I do not observe any other signs of CPU
> throttling, such as dropped packets when I see the problem.
> 
> Cheers,
> Veljko

The message sink is usually configured to drop packets if the queue length
exceeds a threshold.  This sheds load.

Eric