How to remove lag in marker publishing?

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Can I use ros::Time to measure the time taken from the beginning to the end of a callback function? Also, do you know the interval between subscribing? (You can find it with rostopic hz /tf(?), I think. )

This is just a thought, but it may be that the time taken for the callback is longer than the interval to subscribe. Then gradually the buffer will fill up and topics will appear that are not stored in the buffer. That may be what is making the interval look large.

whenever new data is received on a topic a marker is created

Are markers also deleted?

Markers are not deleted. I'll measure the callback time tomorrow. For now, I've also seen this message in the terminal output which starts exactly when the lag begins: Could not find a connection between 'map' and 'odom' because they are not part of the same tree.Tf has two or more unconnected trees. This appears to be related to this function which is also called within my callback:

def get_map_pose(self, frame, required_position):
    tf_buffer = tf2_ros.Buffer()
    tf2_ros.TransformListener(tf_buffer)
    try:
        transform = tf_buffer.lookup_transform(frame, required_position, rospy.Time(0), rospy.Duration(1))
        self.map_pose.pose = tf2_geometry_msgs.do_transform_pose(self.odom_pose.pose, transform)
        self.map_pose.header.stamp = self.odom_pose.header.stamp
        return
    except (tf2_ros.LookupException, tf2_ros.ConnectivityException, tf2_ros.ExtrapolationException) as error:

Markers are not deleted.

that's not necessarily a good idea. All physical systems have limits, and browsers are no exception.

re: your TF problem: you cannot create a TransformListener in a callback or function, there isn't sufficient time for the buffer to be filled with TF messages such that your lookups succeed.

This is a very well known anti-pattern.

OK thanks for the guidance. Are there any alternate approaches to getting the robot pose in the map frame within a callback? Also, I need markers to not be deleted for visualisation.