On Nov 14, 2006, at 3:41 AM, carmen wrote:
On Mon Nov 13, 2006 at 05:48:38PM -0500, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
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'.
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..
Yeah, I guess that's what the watchdog is supposed to do, but it
doesn't work for me at least, and this patch does. Plus its got the
advantage of being written in Pd.
.hc
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