I have a flow (included below) that receives packets via UDP, splits up the bytes, then parses the bytes to data and passes them to a dashboard. When I only have a single dashboard item (battery power) the dashboard is quick, snappy and does a good job at keeping up with the incoming packets.
However, as I add more dashboard nodes performance starts to suffer on UDP feed nodes to the point where the editor and the dashboard become extremely laggy.
I have tried using rate limits to limit the amount of packets being sent to the data I don't need updated in real time but that hasn't helped much.
I guess my question is, I'm I missing something obvious that causing the performance issues or I'm i hitting the ceiling of what the node-red dashboard can do?
as a side note, I've migrated from a RPi to a VM with 4 cores and 4GB RAM to see if it would make a difference, it didn't.
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