reliability of gem on linux (Re: [PD] (Facts Please !) a mac or pc with Linux for PD)

[Jerome Etienne]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 10:58:44AM -0500, B. Bogart wrote:
> This is just not true, I've only had stability problems with CVS gem under
> linux, 86 and 87 run without problems.
> I've had a 87 process running for over 5000cpu hours! no crashes.

my user experience is when i use pd with gem from ccrma with a redhat9.0
it produce a segmentation fault quite often (at most 10min before a crash)
just by using the examples provided by gem.

can you describe how you succeed to have it working reliably ?