Re: Realtime Capabilities of RTT

S Roderick <[email protected]> Fri, 07 Mar 2014 09:26:18 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.science.robotics.orocos.devel
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On Mar 7, 2014, at 08:56 , Matthias Goldhoorn <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello together,
> for some research i need to know a few things about RTT in detail, 
> special the real time-guaranteement of RTT.
> 
> A connection-establishing/releasing is not real time in general because 
> it needs to allocate memory for the connection itself.
> But, is component start/stop or operation call real time capable if the 
> components are within one deployment. And the component are controlled 
> thought (e.g.) LUA?

Starting and stopping components is real-time (in v1 at least)

Not sure about LUA.

> Same questions for Property setting?!

IIRC Properties are not necessarily real-time safe, though we use them a lot within real-time components without an issue. It may depend on what you do with them.
S

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