[GEM-dev] System and Gui blocking on OS X

[chris clepper]

Make sure to never use the -rt flag when running GEM on OSX.  I believe 
any of the pthread hacks introduced to Pd for OSX are only activated by 
using the -rt flag now.  If not then it's a bug and one that was 
already fixed in 0.37.

cgc

On Jan 25, 2005, at 4:04 AM, <heimie at selective.de> wrote:

>
> Hi there,
> i just read IOhannes` post on realtime and linux issues.
> perhaps this is something related, since the symptoms are pretty
> similar.
> so, if i do some video processing that it too much for my cpu
> (which happens quite often on my G3-900 iBook) my system is completely
> overloaded an i can not even kill the process, because i cannot
> access my terminal any more. the video is still running and being
> processed though, but i am out of the busines.
> the only way to avoid this is to set the "gemwin" to a low framerate.
> is there another way to do this?
> gem seems to try to get the maximum results at all cost.
> can somebody help me, please?!
> is there some way to lower the framerate dynamically at runtime or
> something like a framedrop external?
>
> regards,
>
> sebastian
>
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