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By default, rospy publishers are blocking, and a blocking publish call won't return until the underlying TCP socket succeeds or times out. You can change this by specifying the queue size to the rospy publisher.

The original bug report for this is ros_comm #169 and the fix is released into Hydro and later releases.

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