R: [PD] CPS vs PD - experiences?

[Davide Morelli]

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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> -----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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