[PD] [failsafe] to save you when Pd pegs the CPU

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

I was just playing with Alberto Zin's OuterSpace on my poor old 800  
MHz laptop.  When I opened it the first time, it pegged my CPU and  
locked me out.  I had to power cycle my machine.  This isn't the  
first time something like this has happened to me, so now I did  
something about it:

I wrote [failsafe].  When the CPU is pegged, it first tries turning  
off the DSP (this could also easily turn off Gem rendering).  If that  
fails, it will quit Pd, thus saving the poor machine the hard reset.

http://pure-data.cvs.sourceforge.net/pure-data/externals/hcs/general/ 
failsafe.pd

http://pure-data.cvs.sourceforge.net/pure-data/externals/hcs/general/ 
doc/failsafe-help.pd

Ultimately, I think that something like this should be built into Pd,  
which makes me think that there should be a way to run Pd patches as  
init scripts for Pd.  They would be hidden, unless you made them  
viewable.  Maybe something like a patch embedded in the Pd window.

.hc

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