Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] High Data rate File Sink dropped data

[Tom Rondeau]

On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Jason Thomas <address@hidden> wrote:
> I am trying to record data directly from a UDP stream to file. I have four
> channels at 1.2MHz sample rate the code is below. Basically it opens a UDP
> source and connects to a file sink. However, It is losing data when writing
> to the file. If I stream a signal with a one second burst the spacing is not
> correct. Also, I have another c++ program that reads the UDP packets and
> records directly to file, and there are no lost UDP packets nor lost data
> with this program. Also I have checked that the UDP packet size is less than
> 1472, it is currently at 1024 bytes.
>
> Is there a way to see if file_sink is not able to handle that data rate, or
> to see if the UDP source cannot keep up?


It's most likely that your disk is not able to keep up. I've used GNU
Radio's file sink to save gigabytes of data at 25 MHz float I&Q, but I
used a RAID5 device to do it. You probably need more spindles.

Tom