[chuck-users] limit on number of OSC addresses you can listen to?

Ben Steinberg ben at potswift.org
Fri Aug 22 15:21:36 EDT 2014


At Joel's and antimon's suggestion at electro-music, I tried OscRecv
instead of OscIn -- all 16 listeners worked.  Recompiling with 256 makes
the original code work, as Joel said; my attempts to recompile with
lower numbers (24, 32, 72) did not -- no listeners worked.

Ben

On 8/22/14, 2:43 PM, Ben Steinberg wrote:
> Wow, thanks! I'll see about getting a dev environment together and
> recompiling with something like 32 or 64 --
> 
> Ben
> 
> On 8/22/14, 2:38 PM, Joel Matthys wrote:
>> It looks to me like the limit of 12 is hard-coded in src/ulib_opsc.cpp,
>> line 201:
>>
>>     m_inMsgBuffer(CircularBuffer<OscInMsg>(12)),
>>
>> I raised it to 256 and recompiled and your example worked correctly.
>>
>> I can definitely see the value of allowing more than 12 addresses on the
>> same port. I'm not sure the memory impact though.
>>
>> Joel
>> -- 
>>
>> On 08/22/2014 12:25 PM, Ben Steinberg wrote:
>>> I've posted about this to the electro-music forum:
>>> http://electro-music.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=402793
>>>
>>> In trying to write some code for the Illucia dtr, I found that adding
>>> addresses to an OscIn object appeared not to work after twelve
>>> addresses.  I wrote a test program that wasn't illucia-specific; the
>>> following code starts 16 OSC transmitters and 16 receivers. When you run
>>> it, you can see that transmitters 0-15 all transmit, but only receivers
>>> 0-11 receive.
>>>
>>> for ( 0 => int i ; i < 16 ; i++ ) {
>>>      spork ~ output(i);
>>>      spork ~ input(i);
>>> }
>>>
>>> while ( true ) {
>>>      1::second => now;
>>> }
>>>
>>> fun void output(int number) {
>>>      12008 => int port;
>>>      "localhost" => string hostname;
>>>      OscOut xmit;
>>>      xmit.dest(hostname, port);
>>>      while (true) {
>>>          Math.random2f(5.5, 8.5) => float wait;
>>>          wait::second => now;
>>>          xmit.start("/tester/what/" + number);
>>>          Math.random2f(0.0, 1.0) => float temp => xmit.add;
>>>          xmit.send();
>>>          <<< "sent", number, temp >>>;
>>>      }
>>> }
>>>
>>> fun void input(int number) {
>>>      OscIn oin;
>>>      OscMsg msg;
>>>      12008 => oin.port;
>>>      oin.addAddress("/tester/what/" + number + ", f");
>>>      float val;
>>>      while (true) {
>>>          oin => now;
>>>          while ( oin.recv(msg) != 0 )
>>>          {
>>>              msg.getFloat(0) => val;
>>>              <<< "received", number, val >>>;
>>>          }
>>>          5::ms => now;
>>>      }
>>> }
>>>
>>> I'm running ChucK 1.3.4 on Mavericks, with and without miniAudicle.
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