[PD] pd-watchdog question

[Miller Puckette]

Sorry, I just tried and killing the watchdog kills pd too, oops.

Only way I can see to do it is comment out the line in s_watchdog.c:

        kill(getppid(), SIGHUP);

and recompile.

cheers
Miller

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 07:50:31PM +0100, Ingo Scherzinger wrote:
> 
> Freezing the machine shouldn't be a problem. It's only running one pd patch
> which is being automatically started right after the system (Ubuntu Stutio
> 8.04) has booted up. The patch won't be edited after that.
> I'll have to see how I can kill watchdog before it does anything. Is there a
> startup flag I could use to start pd without watchdog or what would be the
> best way to start pd without it?
> 
> Ingo
> 
> 
> > Hmmm -- it shouldn't have any effect, but I can't swear i doesn't.
> > To find out, I think you can just kill the watchdog process and see
> > if the flakiness goes away.  Only downside to that is you no longer
> > have protection against Pd freezing your machine :)
> > 
> > Miller
> > 
> > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 05:54:11PM +0100, Ingo Scherzinger wrote:
> > > >I am getting pd-watchdog signals during loading of a pd patch on a "-
> > nogui"
> > > system.
> > >
> > > >I read that watchdog is trying to stop the pd thread to prevent lockup
> > when
> > > it can't get any pings to respond in time. Now the question is:
> > >
> > > >Is it possible that there are portions of the pd patch not loading
> > > correctly when this happens? BTW it happens with the "-rt" flag on and
> > off.
> > > And the patch is very large.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I just noticed the reason this might be happening is that I am starting
> > some
> > > other patches (samplervoices) during the initial loading of the patch
> > which
> > > need quite some time to load. But the question remains: can there be
> > loading
> > > errors because of that? And I do have some strange things happening with
> > > this patch lately!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Ingo
> > >
> > 
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