Radio Buffer's filling up faster then they should NRF_ERROR_RESOURCES on a sd_ble_gatts_hvx(..)

[Dave_couling]

I have a sensor which I'm grabbing FIFO data from every 14msec,  ~240bytes.   I send these FIFO grabs as soon as they arrive. 

My connection parameters:

Connection Interval: 10msec

MTU = 247

DL=251

hvn_tx_queue_size = 36 

event_length = tried 8 ~ 18

PHY = tested both 1Mbps and 2Mbps

According to the timing, the FIFO data grabs occur every 14msec, so under the Connection interval.  Therefore the Buffers should never fill up.  However after about 200 data sends I get the NRF_ERROR_RESOURCES error.  Is there a setting I'm missing, why would the Radio be throttling?  If the MTU is 247 and Interval 10msec, assuming single packet in a Connection Event it should support up to 24kB/sec (with 240byte payloads).  According to the FIFO data grab date it only needs ~17.2kB/sec.  So where am I missing something that would cause the link not to be able to support the Data Rate and hit Buffer FULL errors?    I do handle this by wait on the BLE_GATTS_EVT_HVN_TX_COMPLETE but I don't want to lose any incoming data.

I'm currently using an nRF52840, SDK 16, S140 v7.0.1

Thanks for the help guys,

DC

[Hung Bui]

Hi Dave, 
Could you let me know more about the application you are running on the PCA10059? With more sniffer traces it becomes quite clear that it's the PCA10059 not acking the notification. And it seems that it crashed, not just about slow processing. If you are connecting the dongle to PC, you may want to test using nRF Connect app. 
We also have throughput test example in the SDK ble_app_att_mtu_throughput that you can use for testing. 

[Dave_couling]

I am using the default Firmware used for the nRF Connect Bluetooth LE Software Application