[PD] debugging sporadic hangs at startup

Miller Puckette msp at ucsd.edu
Thu Sep 27 18:27:07 CEST 2012


On Macintosh I presume...

Maybe you can use gdb to 'attach' to the running Pd process, assuming it
at least gets started up (which I assume it must have in order to start
loading the patch).

cheers
Miller

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 12:22:57PM -0400, Ivica Ico Bukvic wrote:
> All,
> 
>  
> 
> I am noticing sporadic GUI freezes when loading complex patches on startup.
> How would one go about debugging this when most of such startups happen by
> clicking on the app icon (so no access to gdb or console). Short of changing
> the app icon to make everyone's apps always start with gdb, is there a way
> to redirect debugging output to a file?
> 
>  
> 
> On a related matter, any other users noticed these ocassional hangs when
> loading a complex patch (the window opens but remains blank and clicking on
> any options in the menu does nothing)?
> 

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