|Yes I have modified some lines in the crontab scripts to avoid CPU |hungry behaviours. I didn't dare to kill "crond" but will consider this |if the situation ask for (live act). |But right know I have to stop my work in progress and find a better |solution.
shutting down crond shouldnt be a serious problem, as i dint suppose you re taking your production servers out to perform in the fields? ;) all it does in simple cases is cleaning tmp dirs, removing core files, *~ files and runnnign updatedb oince in a while. or did i forget some critical taks?
|The both PD threads I run respectivly on my 2 machines need a lot of CPU |and it seems that even a too long disk activity can be a threat for |their stability. | |I was using netscape when Pure Data freezed again few minutes ago. | |I am the only one who have theses kind of problems ? Is it linux |specific ?
i m using pd constantly with all sorts of apps open () or other orcesses running and i dare say its never crashed because of system overload. that just shouldnt happen. ?
|I am wondering if the soundcards i use are not a factor. I use a SB 128 |PCI (ens1370) with ALSA in OSS emulation and a fidji.
got the same card thou running with kernel drivers, !alsa ..
|Theses machines have dual cpu main boards but have only one CPU each for |the moment. |May be adding the second one will let PD being less interrupted by other |tasks or devices. I read that in dual cpus machines on linux, one of the |cpu is dealing with the IRQ. It's just an idea.
that sounds more like a place to investigate? have you looked into bios options for single cpu mode or tried a kernel upgrade? we ve had sysfreezes on a dual cpu machine with suse 6.2 or so., that was from 2.2.10 => 2.2.13 ..