If throttle is removed then how can we prevent the cpu being used up if
there is not rate limiting block in the flowgraph ?

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Justin Bracken <scourc...@gmail.com> wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Justin Bracken <scourc...@gmail.com>
> Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2010
> Subject: Same File Size
> To: Eric Blossom <e...@comsec.com>
>
>
> Are the samples in the files synced? I.e. The sample at index 1 in
> file1 is recorded at the same time as the sample at index 1 in file2?
>
> In which case file length is irrelevant.
>
> On Sep 29, 2010, at 4:20 PM, Eric Blossom <e...@comsec.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 04:14:18PM -0400, Justin Bracken wrote:
> >> Hello All,
> >>
> >> I am expecting to see a similiar file size in a simple test file that im
> >> running and I don't get that. Is there something Im missing?
> >>
> >> USRP2->FileSink
> >> SignalSource->Throttle->FileSink
> >>
> >> I have checked obvious things. The USRP2 block is set to a decimation of
> >> 400. Given the 100MS/s rate of the USRP2 I expect the stream to be 250e3
> >> MS/s. So I set the overall sample rate to 250e3. I have also set the
> >> datatypes of all the blocks to floats. The Throttle is set to 250e3.
> >>
> >> If it matters the  signal source is set to a saw tooth,1Hz.
> >>
> >> Im more interested in knowing that samples read back out of the files
> are
> >> synchronized. So I guess it doesn't matter if they are the same length
> if
> >> all this mean is that I need to trim the files to the same length.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Justin
> >
> > If you want a particular number of samples in a file, etc.,
> > use gr.head.
> >
> > Generally you SHOULD NOT be using throttle.
> >
> > throttle causes so much confusion, I'm of the opinion that we should
> > remove it from the code base.
> >
> > Eric
>
> _______________________________________________
> Discuss-gnuradio mailing list
> Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org
> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
>
_______________________________________________
Discuss-gnuradio mailing list
Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio

Reply via email to