Quoting rtsample <karre [..] ...>:

>
> Hi all,
>
> I have just heard about the Orocos Project and your project sounds
> very interesting to me, as I want to measure different data on
> software behaviour(runtime, ressource utilization etc.).
>
> At the moment, I have a linux platform patched with Xenomai. Now I
> wanted to know whether I need any additional hardware to run some
> Orocos applications.

The example applications require no special hardware. The Orocos
Components (OCL) located under 'hardware' do require that specific hardware
to be installed. A default build of the OCL (which you require to run the
example apps) will build without the hardware components and should
do just fine on your system.

>
> What I am searching is some type of software that can run
> autonomously. For example benchmarks, loop-back-tests etc.
>
> Is there anything fitting in the Orocos Project?

I used a benchmark in my PhD thesis that tested 2-5 thread
communicating systems in various configurations, using various
primitives. You need to get it from svn. Check out
http://svn.mech.kuleuven.be/repos/orocos/orocos-apps/task-performance

and issue 'make OROPATH=/path/to/orocos' (requires RTT 1.0 to be
installed). These test are not maintained (I just committed some
compile fixes though), so don't expect to much of it. Also, in order to
monitor Orocos performance you
must enable the 'ThreadScope' using 'make configure_packages'.

Peter