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by msadowski 262 days ago
One thing that comes to mind is checking the timestamps across sensors and other topics. Two cases come to mind:

* I was setting up Ouster lidar to use gos time, don’t remember the details now but it was reporting the time ~32 seconds in the past (probably some leap seconds setting?)

* I had a ROS node misbehaving in some weird ways - it turned out there was a service call to insert something into db and for some reason the db started taking 5+ minutes to complete which wasn’t really appropriate for a blocking call

I think the timing is one thing that needs to be consistently done right on every platform. The other issues I came across were very application specific.