Hi all, I'm using a C++ program that modulates a signal that I feed to GRC via an mkfifo (named pipe) file. The problem is that I get underruns from the USRP.
There is a function in the C++ program that converts from double to float and then dumps it to stdout which I then feed to an mkfifo file in the command line. With the buffer size of 32 bytes in the stdout line in C++ I get consistent underruns. With the buffer size to 4096 bytes, I get an initial underrun and then none for about 1-2 minutes and then I start getting them more consistently, and about 500msec of no signal for each underrun. With the buffer size set to the size of a 2 second packet (at 500 kHz) I get an underrun every 4 seconds with a 1-2 seconds of no signal randomly in between my modulated signal. Does anyone have any ideas if I need to use a certain buffer size? I tried this on my netbook with an intel atom and also laptop with a duo core and got the same thing. When I run the C++ program and output to a regular file, and read in with the GRC script at the same time, I don't get any underruns at all, but of course this isn't real time. My other idea is to find a way to do the conversion from double to float in GRC with a custom block. I also wonder if going from stdout to a pipe file and then reading the pipe file from GRC is also a problem. Thanks-Tom
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