[PD] testing 0.41-0test6 notes

[Miller Puckette]

OK... I think I can track down an RME HDSP and try too... I'm travelling
the next 2 weeks so might not be able to try it out till late this 
month.

cheers
Miller

On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 04:07:46AM +0000, ilya .d wrote:
> i think that happend overnight .. so may be 8 to 10 hours ..
> 
> i use alsa + rme hdsp pci card.
> 
> it might be still because of my pd.tk .. i didn't finish w orking on it
> , so alsways get errors because i just commented out all the stuff about
> menus .. - it prints stuff like this 'invalid command name ".x745c20.m.windows"'.
> 
> i'll get back to original pd.tk and have a look if it crashes again when
> i have some time.
> 
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 01:46:54PM -0700, Miller Puckette wrote:
> > 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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