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Summary: I have a node publishing messages at ~300hz, but a callback subscribing to the topic in another node only gets called at ~25hz. The spinOnce in the subscriber node is being called at ~700hz, so I don't know why it's missing messages.

Publisher node:

#include <ros/ros.h>
#include <ros/console.h>
#include <nav_msgs/Odometry.h>

...

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
    ros::init(argc, argv, "sim_node");
    ros::NodeHandle nh;

    ...

    // Publishers
    tf::TransformBroadcaster tfbr;
    ros::Publisher odomPub = nh.advertise<nav_msgs::Odometry>("pose",10);

   ...

    ros::Rate r(300); // loop rate
    while(ros::ok())
    {
        ...

        // Publish pose and velocity
            ...
        odomPub.publish(msg);

        ros::spinOnce();
        r.sleep();
    }

    ros::waitForShutdown();
    return 0;
}

Subscriber node:

#include <ros/ros.h>
#include <ros/console.h>
#include <nav_msgs/Odometry.h>

...

std::mutex mtx1, mtx2;

class DataHandler
{
private:
    ros::NodeHandle nh;
    ros::Publisher odomPub;
    double lastTime;
    int lastSeq;

public:
    Eigen::Vector3d x, xDot, w;
    Eigen::Vector3d xDes, xDesDot, xDesDotDot, b1Des, b1DesDot;
    Eigen::Matrix3d R;

    DataHandler()
    {
        // Initialize data
        xDes = Eigen::Vector3d(1,0,1);
        xDesDot = Eigen::Vector3d::Zero();
        xDesDotDot = Eigen::Vector3d::Zero();
        b1Des = Eigen::Vector3d(1,0,0);
        b1DesDot = Eigen::Vector3d::Zero();
        x = Eigen::Vector3d::Zero();
        xDot = Eigen::Vector3d::Zero();
        R = Eigen::Matrix3d::Identity();

        odomPub = nh.advertise<nav_msgs::Odometry>("controller_pose",10);
        trajPub = nh.advertise<asap_control::DesiredTrajectory>("controller_desTraj",10);
        lastTime = ros::Time::now().toSec();
        lastSeq = 0;
    }

    // Get current pose and velocity
    void odomCB(const nav_msgs::OdometryConstPtr& odomMsg)
    {

        mtx1.lock();
            // Get data
        double time1 = ros::Time::now().toSec();
        x << odomMsg->pose.pose.position.x, odomMsg->pose.pose.position.y, ...;
        xDot << odomMsg->twist.twist.linear.x, odomMsg->twist.twist.linear.y, ...;
        R = Eigen::Quaterniond(odomMsg->pose.pose.orientation.w, odomMsg->pose.pose.orientation.x,...;
        w << odomMsg->twist.twist.angular.x, odomMsg->twist.twist.angular.y, ...;
        double time2 = ros::Time::now().toSec();

            // Time to extract data, < 1ms
        double delTproc = time2 - time1;
        std::cout << "\n\n";
        std::cout << "proc elapsed time: " << delTproc << "\n";
        std::cout << "proc frequency: " << 1.0/delTproc << "\n";

        odomPub.publish(odomMsg); // rostopic hz says this is publishing at ~25Hz

            // Time between callback calls, ~25Hz
        double timeNow = ros::Time::now().toSec();
        double delT = timeNow - lastTime;
        lastTime = timeNow;
        std::cout << "elapsed time: " << delT << "\n";
        std::cout << "frequency: " << 1.0/delT << "\n";

            // Message sequence IDs, shows 12 msgs skipped every call
        int seqNow = odomMsg->header.seq;
        int delSeq = seqNow - lastSeq;
        lastSeq = seqNow;
        std::cout << "delta seq: " << delSeq << "\n";
        mtx1.unlock();
    }

};

...

int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
    ros::init(argc, argv, "asap_control");
    ros::NodeHandle nh;

    ...

    // Publishers
    ros::Publisher outputPub = nh.advertise<geometry_msgs::WrenchStamped>("wrench_command",10);
    ros::Publisher debugPub = nh.advertise<asap_control::ControllerSignals>("controller_debug",10);
    tf::TransformBroadcaster tfbr;

    // Subscribers
    DataHandler callbacks;
    ros::Subscriber poseSub = nh.subscribe("pose",10,&DataHandler::odomCB,&callbacks);

    // Asynchronous threads for callback handling
    //ros::AsyncSpinner spinner(2);
    //spinner.start();

    double lastTime = ros::Time::now().toSec();


    // Main loop
    ros::Rate r(700); // loop rate
    while(ros::ok())
    {
        // Data (extracted for cleanliness further down, and thread safety)
        mtx1.lock();
        Eigen::Vector3d x = callbacks.x;
        Eigen::Vector3d xDot = callbacks.xDot;
        Eigen::Matrix3d R = callbacks.R;
        Eigen::Vector3d w = callbacks.w;
        mtx1.unlock();

            ...

        // Publish
            ...
        outputPub.publish ...