would be very very nice to have a page on the wiki explaining how to setup a debian machine like the one you described (putting eveything in RAM, autostartup, etc..).
I've made a couple of installation but they were rather instable (i used GEM on Fedora c4 and on Ubuntu). the first because I had to load videofiles and from time to time it crashed; the second was my fault, I kept sending too much data to GEM getting a lot of stack overflow.
ciao, davide
www.davidemorelli.it
-----Messaggio originale----- Da: pd-list-bounces@iem.at [mailto:pd-list-bounces@iem.at] Per conto di Marius Schebella Inviato: giovedì 8 giugno 2006 11.46 A: Hans-Christoph Steiner Cc: PD-List Oggetto: Re: [PD] CPS vs PD - experiences?
I also made some good experience with Pd in installation surroundings. also with old computers. one installation is running for more than two years now. two others were running for a half year each. the problem is rather the hardware (esp. with older hardware, where harddisks and mainboards can break.) all of the installations start by turning on a main switch / resp. the fuses of the whole room. linux (I use debian) is preferred, I also unmount harddisks after startup and having everything in the RAM to prevent harddisk damage by powerblackouts. on both, osx and windows you could run into problems when changing from summer to wintertime in longtime installations and on mac os(9?) I once saw problems with large temp files (that was not a Pd installation). marius.
Hans-Christoph Steiner schrieb:
I've used Pd in a number of installations and its great for this, especially when running on GNU/Linux. For this installation:
I ran the whole thing on a discarded PC running Pd on Debian. It
would automatically start up the installation on boot, andI set it
up so that the disks ran synchronously so that it could be power- cycled without worrying about losing data. They had random power
outages, so it had to come back by itself. It did crash sometimes
(you can probably blame my programming), but the gallerypeople could
just flip the power to get it going again. Yes, it takes
time to set
up Debian, and to make things start up like that. But it
has saved
me probably days worth of troubleshooting time, so it was
well worth it.
There are a number of other examples of installations running Pd,
there is a permanent sound installation in a park in Viennathat runs Pd.
IEM's 24-channel ambisonic setup runs Pd. There is an
installation
here at NIME/Agora @ IRCAM that is running Pd. So its definitely ready for prime time.
.hc
On Jun 7, 2006, at 5:29 AM, Damian Stewart wrote:
i'm developing an installation for a public-access augmented table educational interface. i'd like to use pd bu i'm not sure
about its
long-term stability.
previously the place i'm working has used cps (http:// cps.bonneville.nl/) - i'm wondering, has anyone here had any experiences with cps? could they recommend it/or not?
or pd for that matter - how reliable might pd be in an 8
hrs a day 7
days a week installation 500km away from where i live?
would using
pd here be a dumb idea?
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