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rospy publishers using tons of CPU

asked 2018-04-27 14:14:17 -0500

stevemacenski

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I have a node with a number of subscribers and publishers in it. Most of them have no problem, but 2 in particular running at 100hz are taking up about 15% of an i7 CPU set with a queue_size of 10.

When the application runs with just the publish line commented out, it drops 15%. I've never seen anything like this in C++ and wasn't sure if there was some quirk in python needed to address high rate topics.

Any thoughts?

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It's hard to comment on this without seeing your code, but I've mostly used rospy and haven't run into this.

jayess ( 2018-04-27 15:08:42 -0500 )edit

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answered 2018-04-27 15:32:36 -0500

stevemacenski

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I found when I changed the 100hz topics to having a queue_size of None, the CPU immediately dropped to the 15% less, if all other topics are also None, no real difference, appears to only be an issue for the high rate ones.

I need to look into the ramifications of it but seems like a plausible fix.

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