Gazebo faster-than-realtime operation?

Ha, we should have mentioned it on the tutorial. You can echo those messages with the gz topic CLI. You can also view them on the GUI with WindowTopic Visualization.

I’m not sure what the question is. What are the LIDAR’s update rates as set on SDF?

I don’t have any immediate insights for you here, I’d have to research a bit on how the ros2 CLI and rviz2 are calculating the frequency.