[PD] pd-watchdog

[Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu]

On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Ben Saylor wrote:

> I sometimes encounter situations where Pd (0.35/Linux) spontaneusly
> starts eating all available CPU, and I have to wait until I can get a
> keystroke in edgewise to kill it.  While this is going on,
>
>   watchdog: signaling pd...
>
> is printed repeatedly in the terminal, but apparently this watchdog
> is unsuccessful.  Is it supposed to turn off DSP or something?

I never looked at the code but I think the signal is handled by the engine
dropping some synthesis cycles which is usually enough to give you a
chance to kill it or send some message that hopefully kill the task.
Turning the DSP off may not be a good choice in general.

Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu.