Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GRC's graphical sinks performance issues

2010-09-03 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 09/04/2010 12:01 AM, Eric Blossom wrote: > FWIW, independent of GNU Radio, I've found that OpenGL support in > Linux still leaves a lot to be desired in the performance and > reliability departments. (Spoken as someone who's recently tried high > performance cards from both Nvidia and ATI, tryi

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GRC's graphical sinks performance issues

2010-09-03 Thread Eric Blossom
On Fri, Sep 03, 2010 at 04:21:53PM -0700, Jack Ott wrote: > > > Matt Ettus wrote: > > > > On 09/02/2010 07:09 AM, Jack Ott wrote: > >> > >> The strange thing is that when the fft's sample rate is at 25Msps which > >> equals the USRP's bandwidth at a decimation of 4 everything works fine > >> wit

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GRC's graphical sinks performance issues

2010-09-03 Thread Jack Ott
Matt Ettus wrote: > > On 09/02/2010 07:09 AM, Jack Ott wrote: >> >> The strange thing is that when the fft's sample rate is at 25Msps which >> equals the USRP's bandwidth at a decimation of 4 everything works fine >> with >> the regular fft sink yet not with the OpenGL one. However when I increa

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GRC's graphical sinks performance issues

2010-09-02 Thread Jack Ott
Marcus D. Leech wrote: > > On 09/02/2010 11:39 AM, Matt Ettus wrote: >> >> >> If you have unaccelerated OpenGL, then the OpenGL version will be >> unacceptably slow. >> >> Matt >> > Any idea how you *tell* if your OpenGL is accelerated or not? How does > this relate to the Direct Rendering Man

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GRC's graphical sinks performance issues

2010-09-02 Thread Johnathan Corgan
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 08:39, Matt Ettus wrote: > I think you are missing the point here.  There is no need to lie to the > program.  If you are sending the FFT sink 25 MS/s, then tell it you are > sending it 25 MS/s.  If you give it a different rate you will have all sorts > of other issues, lik

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GRC's graphical sinks performance issues

2010-09-02 Thread Alexandru Csete
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 5:53 PM, Marcus D. Leech wrote: > On 09/02/2010 11:39 AM, Matt Ettus wrote: >> >> >> If you have unaccelerated OpenGL, then the OpenGL version will be >> unacceptably slow. >> >> Matt >> > Any idea how you *tell* if your OpenGL is accelerated or not? I know several ways tha

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GRC's graphical sinks performance issues

2010-09-02 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 09/02/2010 11:39 AM, Matt Ettus wrote: > > > If you have unaccelerated OpenGL, then the OpenGL version will be > unacceptably slow. > > Matt > Any idea how you *tell* if your OpenGL is accelerated or not? How does this relate to the Direct Rendering Manager in the X server? -- Marcus Leech

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GRC's graphical sinks performance issues

2010-09-02 Thread Matt Ettus
On 09/02/2010 07:09 AM, Jack Ott wrote: The strange thing is that when the fft's sample rate is at 25Msps which equals the USRP's bandwidth at a decimation of 4 everything works fine with the regular fft sink yet not with the OpenGL one. However when I increase the fft's sample rate to 50Msps wh

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GRC's graphical sinks performance issues

2010-09-02 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 09/02/2010 10:09 AM, Jack Ott wrote: > The strange thing is that when the fft's sample rate is at 25Msps which > equals the USRP's bandwidth at a decimation of 4 everything works fine with > the regular fft sink yet not with the OpenGL one. However when I increase > the fft's sample rate to 50Ms

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GRC's graphical sinks performance issues

2010-09-02 Thread Jack Ott
The strange thing is that when the fft's sample rate is at 25Msps which equals the USRP's bandwidth at a decimation of 4 everything works fine with the regular fft sink yet not with the OpenGL one. However when I increase the fft's sample rate to 50Msps which is 2x the USRP's bandwidth both sinks

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GRC's graphical sinks performance issues

2010-09-01 Thread Marcus D. Leech
On 09/02/2010 12:52 AM, Matt Ettus wrote: > > > This is where your problem is. If you are using decimation of 4 then > you are sending 25 million samples per second to the display. > However, you are telling it that its sample rate is 1 Million. Thus > you are giving it 25 times as many samples

Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GRC's graphical sinks performance issues

2010-09-01 Thread Matt Ettus
P.S. - My configuration: I'm using the latest gnuradio source code along with a USRP2 and a WBX board, decimation is at 4, the FFT Sink's bin size is set at 2048 and its sampling rate is at 1,000,000. The computer is a Thinkpad X61s with a Core2Duo 1.6GHz processor and an Intel GM965 graphics