7 Nov
2002
7 Nov
'02
7:52 a.m.
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, Ben Saylor wrote:
I sometimes encounter situations where Pd (0.35/Linux) spontaneusly starts eating all available CPU, and I have to wait until I can get a keystroke in edgewise to kill it. While this is going on,
watchdog: signaling pd...
is printed repeatedly in the terminal, but apparently this watchdog is unsuccessful. Is it supposed to turn off DSP or something?
I never looked at the code but I think the signal is handled by the engine dropping some synthesis cycles which is usually enough to give you a chance to kill it or send some message that hopefully kill the task. Turning the DSP off may not be a good choice in general.
Maurizio Umberto Puxeddu.