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TF Publisher in Hydro is Blocking #98

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kshehata opened this issue May 11, 2015 · 2 comments
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TF Publisher in Hydro is Blocking #98

kshehata opened this issue May 11, 2015 · 2 comments

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Ran into this problem while monitoring a large robot using RViz over a WiFi connection that went flakey. Apparently, TF broadcasting in Python / Hydro is still blocking. This means that when the wifi connection got flakey, the Applanix driver (written in Python) blocked, and our controller stopped being able to do any updates.

From what I can tell in ros/ros_comm#169, ros_comm has been updated, and it looks like there are commits in indigo-devel to fix this. Really it's just a matter of adding queue size to the TF publishers, as per the two commits below. Any chance we can get this back ported to hydro? Seems like a problem many other people are going to face, and it's certainly a major problem on this project.

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tfoote commented May 11, 2015

Yeah, we could backport the queue size. If you have a moment to open a pull request for that it would be great.

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tfoote commented May 12, 2015

Fixed in #99

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