Threaded GUI slowing method execution?
sturlamolden
sturlamolden at yahoo.no
Fri Oct 2 14:22:19 EDT 2009
On 2 Okt, 02:51, Aaron Hoover <ahoo... at eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> All the thread is doing most of the time is sitting around checking
> the serial port for waiting data, reading it, and appending it to a
> list when it finds it.
Do your threads ever block waiting for I/O? If they do, is the GIL
released while they are blocked?
If they don't, you could add a time.sleep(0) to the loop that polls
the port. It will return the rest of the current time slice back to
the system.
Then, in the same thread, the method that seems
> to be remarkably slow works its way through that list looking for
> packets of data and appending the packet payloads it finds to a queue
> to be handled in some way by the GUI.
>
> My question is, what am I missing about either threading or the fact
> that this is running in a GUI that might explain such a huge slowdown.
> I'm sending data over the serial at a true rate of about 24k bytes per
> second, or approximately 2 packets per ms. Is it too much to ask to be
> able to process this data in realtime from within a GUI (I'm not
> talking about plotting or anything - just read it and find packets)?
> Like I said, the process pretty much runs in realtime from a command
> line script.
>
> This packet parsing needs to happen continuously, so it seems calling
> join() to ensure it's not interrupted by the GUI thread, won't work.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> Aaron
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