Accelerometers losing values

[Andy Green]

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Michael Tansella wrote:
>> The overruns /sys thing is the number of times we came to collect a
>> sample set from the accelerometer, but when we did it told us we were
>> late and missed one or more samples that got lost before this one.
>>
>> -Andy
> Ok, thanks then this shows the values I'm missing sometimes.

Maybe, if it increments each time there is a blackout.

> Does this mean python is too slow for this or doesn't get enough resources? If 
> I execute the script, python takes  approx 22% and Xglamo 50% of CPU.
> 
> Was anybody already able to read really every Acc value when sample_rate is 
> set to 400 Hz?

No it can mean a bunch of things, there is already a big investigation
into why we drop serial traffic sometimes, this can easily be related.

- -Andy



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