On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Ben Gear <bg...@dunelm.org.uk> wrote: > All, > > Can anyone tell me if there is a way I can measure the rate at which a flow > graph is executing when it contains no rate limited blocks? > > My motivation for doing this is that I wish to benchmark a signal processing > chain so that I can estimate the maximum bandwidth I can expect to process > with my PC hardware when I eventually use a USRP. Assume that the USRP is > not currently available for my use. > > Many thanks, > > Ben
Hi Ben, This is a really hard question. I've done various ways of benchmarking and measuring code execution, and me and a handful of others have a developing interest in these things. Eventually, we'd like to instrument some code into GNU Radio blocks or the scheduler to keep track of statistics for this. But as I said, it's a hard question to answer and to do properly, which is why we don't really have anything. Now that I've said it's a difficult question, we'll probably get a few "all you have to do is..." answers. Measuring timing and execution has a long history and a lot of debate to it. Anyway, having said that, a simple test is to to just create the most basic flowgraph (null source -> head -> your block -> null sink) and run it using 'time ./myprog.py'. You can run it a number of times and take either the average or the minimum. Most people will tell you that the minimum is probably the best value to take since this represents the time taken with the least amount of system interruption of your code. Hope this helps, Tom _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list Discuss-gnuradio@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
