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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