Synchronous read issues with nidaqmx-python

It initially appears that reading from digital IO with nidaqmx-python may be synchronous, causing too long to loop over reads, yielding error messages as below. I wonder if nidaqmx.streaming_readers is required to read asynchronously as the name implies?

nidaqmx.errors.DaqError: The application is not able to keep up with the hardware acquisition.

Increasing the buffer size, reading the data more frequently, or specifying a fixed number of samples to read instead of reading all available samples might correct the problem. Property: DAQmx_Read_RelativeTo Requested Value: DAQmx_Val_CurrReadPos

Property: DAQmx_Read_Offset Requested Value: 0

Task Name: _unnamedTask<0>

Status Code: -200279

Problematic nidaqmx synchronous read code

This code reads 3 binary lines at once via the Port interface

from time import time
import nidaqmx as nd
with nd.Task() as task:

    task.di_channels.add_di_chan('Dev1/port0/line0:2',
                line_grouping=nd.constants.LineGrouping.CHAN_PER_LINE)

    task.timing.cfg_samp_clk_timing(rate=Fs,
            sample_mode=nd.constants.AcquisitionType.CONTINUOUS,
            )

    print('initializing',fn)
    with h5py.File(fn, 'w') as f:
        f['tstart'] =  time() # TODO use GPS time over serial instead
        b = f.create_dataset("di",(3,Nframenight),dtype=bool)
        sleep(3)
        print('starting fire log loop to',fn)
        i=0
        while True:
            tic=time()
            data = task.read(number_of_samples_per_channel=Nsampread)
            print(time()-tic)