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asked 2012-06-24 06:54:52 -0500

Saphrosit
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I have a Ros::Subscriber that receives messages from a topic. Since I'm doing some computations on the data I receive (and it requires some time), the delay with which I read new messages tend to increase.

Is there a way to "flush" all the unread messages in a topic so that I can read directly the newest one? (I'm using electric on ubuntu 11.10)

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answered 2012-06-24 07:06:47 -0500

Lorenz

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If you set the buffer size to 1 in the call to subscribe, you drop all but the newest message.

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answered 2017-07-13 13:42:05 -0500

Gayan Brahmanage

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updated 2017-07-13 13:42:42 -0500

Set subscriber queue_size to one

rospy.Subscriber("/scan", LaserScan, scanCb,queue_size = 1)

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I admire your enthousiasm, but it would seem your answer is a duplicate of the answer by @Lorenz. Did you feel something was not clear enough in his answer?

gvdhoorn ( 2017-07-14 05:52:18 -0500 )edit

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