Has anyone done a long term (90 days or more) installation using GEM and Windows (XP)? I can't get a machine to not freeze every two weeks or less. The freeze is basically the GPU stops rendering and Pd stops responding but other apps and the OS work. This affects both ATI and NV GPUS. Even destroying and creating the context every day or even rebooting periodically does not prevent freezing at random times. I can only guess at the cause because there is no log like a crash or kernel panic would give.
Please refrain from the 'use Linux' rhetoric as that will not fix the problem on Windows.
Thanks
the randomly hang up also occurs on linux machines from time to time. it seems to me that at some point (which can also be after some hours) the cpu gets overloaded and the whole system stays in that mode until restart... That happened to me with patches that used about 50% cpu in the average. maybe certain objects cause the problem? but I really cannot tell. and I did not go into further investigations, sorry. marius.
chris clepper wrote:
Has anyone done a long term (90 days or more) installation using GEM and Windows (XP)? I can't get a machine to not freeze every two weeks or less. The freeze is basically the GPU stops rendering and Pd stops responding but other apps and the OS work. This affects both ATI and NV GPUS. Even destroying and creating the context every day or even rebooting periodically does not prevent freezing at random times. I can only guess at the cause because there is no log like a crash or kernel panic would give.
Please refrain from the 'use Linux' rhetoric as that will not fix the problem on Windows.
Thanks
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Have you tried some other GPU program for a while? That could help
determine whether it's drivers/OS or Gem related. In my experiences
with Windows, I generally find it worthwhile to have an automatic
nightly reboot. Is there anything in the Event Log?
.hc
On Apr 20, 2007, at 11:47 AM, chris clepper wrote:
Has anyone done a long term (90 days or more) installation using
GEM and Windows (XP)? I can't get a machine to not freeze every
two weeks or less. The freeze is basically the GPU stops rendering
and Pd stops responding but other apps and the OS work. This
affects both ATI and NV GPUS. Even destroying and creating the
context every day or even rebooting periodically does not prevent
freezing at random times. I can only guess at the cause because
there is no log like a crash or kernel panic would give.Please refrain from the 'use Linux' rhetoric as that will not fix
the problem on Windows.Thanks
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i've setup a few computers with pd/gem (on windows XP) for some installations in a museum and the staff didn't report any problems yet (it was maybe one and a half year ago), though it could also be that they didn't notice/report it. the gem-patch is only running 8hours a day (the computers are not shut down correctly, but switched off by switching off the current) and it seemed to work without any poblems yet. i can't recall the exact specs of the computers and the graphic cards (but i think they had intel p4 cpu and nvidia pci-express low profile graphic cards). if the exact information would be usefull for you, i could request it, i think.
On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 10:47 -0500, chris clepper wrote:
Has anyone done a long term (90 days or more) installation using GEM and Windows (XP)? I can't get a machine to not freeze every two weeks or less. The freeze is basically the GPU stops rendering and Pd stops responding but other apps and the OS work. This affects both ATI and NV GPUS. Even destroying and creating the context every day or even rebooting periodically does not prevent freezing at random times. I can only guess at the cause because there is no log like a crash or kernel panic would give.
Please refrain from the 'use Linux' rhetoric as that will not fix the problem on Windows.
Thanks
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