[PD] testing 0.41-0test6 notes

[Miller Puckette]

Hi Ilya,

Thanks for reporting this... any idea whether it takes days or
weeks to crash?

Also, are you using ALSA and what audio hardware?  (that's usually where
the trouble comes in :)

Miller

On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 08:55:11AM +0000, ilya .d wrote:
> i have been running the 0.41-0test6 for a few weeks now (may be it's
> already a month) ..
> 
> i usually keep pd running all the time , just with dsp swithced of (well
> sometimes i forget to do even that).
> 
> when i used version 0.40 i almost havent had any crashes - apart from
> when myself screwed something up and it hang cause that was too much ;]
> 
> basiclly what i noticed about the 0.41-0 , that after i leave it running
> for a while - pd-gui sort of hangs, so it keeps saying 'watchdog:
> signaling pd ...'
> 
> after i kill the gui - it stops saying that, but there are still two
> proceses hanging - pd and pd-watchdog, i couldn't manage to kill those
> yet ..
> there actually two pairs hanging right now ..
> it didn't have any sofisticated patches open - just a couple of pretty
> basic abstractions in my init patch and probably a few helpfiles were
> left overnight.
> 
> i did modify pd.tk , it is work in progress , but i attach it here.
> 
> i got gentoo-linux system, which is relatively stable and up-to-date.
> 
> gcc (GCC) 3.4.6 (Gentoo 3.4.6-r2, ssp-3.4.6-1.0, pie-8.7.10); glibc-2.5;
> linux-2.6.20-gentoo-r8; Tcl/Tk version 8.4 ..
> i got CONFIG_RT_MUTEX=y, but icouldn't sort out pam_limits to really
> enable it yet.
> i run pd with -rt, may that cause actual problem ?
> i ran 0.40 with -rt as well, was no porblem.
> 
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