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

[carmen]

On Mon Nov 13, 2006 at 05:48:38PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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> 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:

brings back memories of loading Twerk's MSP patches on a G3 Mac. im pretty sure id resort to 'force quit'. 

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> 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.

sounds like its duplicating much of what the pd watchdog does. although im not sure what the job of the watchdog is, other than kill pd when its using too much cpu or blocked on gui socket transfers. more like some kind of attack dog waiting until the victim is vulnerable..