On Jul 20, 2008, at 6:35 PM, Bob McGwier wrote: > What Frank suggests and what Brian suggested before: modify threading > priorities, has been done for the audio threads in PowerSDR for, > literally, > years. All threads in PowerSDR can be run at real time through a > setting in > the Setup panel but this is not necessary since what we really care > about is > having the processing of audio threads be high, and not blocking their > ability to run free, etc. We went through all of this when we had > that > silly metering thread at below normal priority able to grabbing a > semaphore > which blocked the sdr thread, way be in the early days. Now there > may be > another threading error still lurking. I will be happy to look at > it later > but may I suggest that in this group in particular one needs to take > a lot > of what is said here when it comes to the down near the metal > internals of > the code, with a mountain of salt. Eric Wachsmann and I spent > literally > weeks looking for any of the non-dsp threads in the GUI, etc. > blocking the > high priority threads. I doubt there is a lot of meat left on that > bone but > I could be wrong.
What you say makes a great deal of sense. I am not seeing any problems with PowerSDR itself. The problem appears to be with VAC. -- 73 de Brian, WB6RQN Brian Lloyd - brian HYPHEN wb6rqn AT lloyd DOT com _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kb.flex-radio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flex-radio.com/
