R: [PD] CPS vs PD - experiences?

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I wrote a Debian startup script for Pd, its in CVS:

scripts/debian/init.d/pd

This script makes it easy to run Pd as a daemon.  Hopefully, it'll  
get included in the debian packages.  I just added a mount option to  
run the disk synchronously (meaning that there is no write caching).   
This will slow down disk operation, but makes it much more resistant  
to hard restarts.  You do that by adding the "sync" to the options  
line in /etc/fstab.

But yes, a wiki page would be nice.  Start a page here, this is a wiki:

http://puredata.org/docs

.hc

On Jun 8, 2006, at 12:19 PM, Davide Morelli wrote:

> would be very very nice to have a page on the wiki explaining how  
> to setup a
> debian machine like the one you described (putting eveything in RAM,
> autostartup, etc..).
>
> I've made a couple of installation but they were rather instable (i  
> used GEM
> on Fedora c4 and on Ubuntu). the first because I had to load  
> videofiles and
> from time to time it crashed; the second was my fault, I kept  
> sending too
> much data to GEM getting a lot of stack overflow.
>
> ciao,
> davide
>
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> www.davidemorelli.it
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>> -----Messaggio originale-----
>> Da: pd-list-bounces at iem.at [mailto:pd-list-bounces at iem.at]
>> Per conto di Marius Schebella
>> Inviato: giovedì 8 giugno 2006 11.46
>> A: Hans-Christoph Steiner
>> Cc: PD-List
>> Oggetto: Re: [PD] CPS vs PD - experiences?
>>
>> I also made some good experience with Pd in installation
>> surroundings.
>> also with old computers. one installation is running for more
>> than two years now. two others were running for a half year
>> each. the problem is rather the hardware (esp. with older
>> hardware, where harddisks and mainboards can break.) all of
>> the installations start by turning on a main switch / resp.
>> the fuses of the whole room. linux (I use debian) is
>> preferred, I also unmount harddisks after startup and having
>> everything in the RAM to prevent harddisk damage by powerblackouts.
>> on both, osx and windows you could run into problems when
>> changing from summer to wintertime in longtime installations
>> and on mac os(9?) I once saw problems with large temp files
>> (that was not a Pd installation).
>> marius.
>>
>>
>> Hans-Christoph Steiner schrieb:
>>>
>>> I've used Pd in a number of installations and its great for this,
>>> especially when running on GNU/Linux.  For this installation:
>>>
>>> http://at.or.at/hans/yoyo
>>>
>>> I ran the whole thing on a discarded PC running Pd on Debian.  It
>>> would automatically start up the installation on boot, and
>> I set it
>>> up so that the disks ran synchronously so that it could be power-
>>> cycled without worrying about losing data.  They had random power
>>> outages, so it had to come back by itself.  It did crash sometimes
>>> (you can probably blame my programming), but the gallery
>> people could
>>> just flip the power to get it going again.  Yes, it takes
>> time to set
>>> up Debian, and to make things start up like that.  But it
>> has saved
>>> me probably days worth of troubleshooting time, so it was
>> well worth it.
>>>
>>> There are a number of other examples of installations running Pd,
>>> there is a permanent sound installation in a park in Vienna
>> that runs  Pd.
>>> IEM's 24-channel ambisonic setup runs Pd.  There is an
>> installation
>>> here at NIME/Agora @ IRCAM that is running Pd.  So its  definitely
>>> ready for prime time.
>>>
>>> .hc
>>>
>>> On Jun 7, 2006, at 5:29 AM, Damian Stewart wrote:
>>>
>>>> i'm developing an installation for a public-access augmented table
>>>> educational interface. i'd like to use pd bu i'm not sure
>> about its
>>>> long-term stability.
>>>>
>>>> previously the place i'm working has used cps (http://
>>>> cps.bonneville.nl/) - i'm wondering, has anyone here had any
>>>> experiences with cps? could they recommend it/or not?
>>>>
>>>> or pd for that matter - how reliable might pd be in an 8
>> hrs a day  7
>>>> days a week installation 500km away from where i live?
>> would  using
>>>> pd here be a dumb idea?
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> f r e y
>>>> live music with computers
>>>> http://www.frey.co.nz
>>>>
>>>>
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