Guys I'm having a problem when I write/save many files in Raspberry Pi.
I'm using the RaspiCam to record videos in HD and at the same time I'm collecting alot of data and writing them in XML files every 1 second. The data is collected at 10 Hz.
I don't know why, but sometimes when I'm saving the XML file, it takes 3-4 seconds to save the file, that's too much. It happens once within 30-40 seconds.
It occurs very often and I'm losing data because of that. I tried to debug and I noticed that when it occurs is where I call the function fopen.
Does somebody know, what is happening?
I'm using the tinyxml2 library to write and save the XML files.
"Edited"
Here is a log file that I did to see what times it's freezing.
[INFO]: [OBD Buffer]: 0 [GPS Buffer]: 26 [IMU Buffer]: 3 [XML Time]: 0.988022(s)
[INFO]: [OBD Buffer]: 2 [GPS Buffer]: 45 [IMU Buffer]: 22 [XML Time]: 2.89335(s)
As you can see, the XML files were saving normally, but suddenly it took 3 seconds to save. Because of that, as my other threads are still running and collecting data, my OBD/GPS/IMU buffers gets full and I start to lose data because the XML is freezing when saving.
Solution: I had to increase the time of saving the XML's files. RaspbianOS isn't a good choice for perfomance in real time. I'm saving the XML's files every minute now and I'm not losing information anymore. So, to sum up I cannot save the XML's files every second. I think the nsilent22' answer can describe it better.
Thank you all for your support.
