Our team has been experiencing a lot of lag recently, after taking a look at amount of CPU being used, we realized that SmartDashboard is taking over 50%. After closing the dashboard, we found it to be much smoother and reactive. My question is, has anyone experienced a similar issue/solution, and if you think that this was the problem we were having.
Nothing is for free. How many variables were you using, how often were they updating, and what language?
The LV variables tab lets you see some metrics on how it is being used, which may help to understand what is using so much of the CPU. It will show reads and writes and updates separately. If you have questions, post detailed questions here.
Greg McKaskle
We had about 11 variables, that was updated every 0.05 seconds. We were programming in C++.
That really isn’t very many. Is it possible that some of the variables are being updated much faster? You may want to go back them again and verify. You can also remove all of them, then add half back, then the other half, etc.
Greg McKaskle