Hey all,
I don't know if anyone is still using [shell] I had it in my installation patch just to start a second PD process.
Anyhow I've been trying to debug a memory problem and during that process found that there were three (not the expected two) PD processes. Two of which were fighting for RAM.
ps made it clear. Before I start the second PD process ps shows:
6484 pd -open root.pd
When I used shell to start the process "pd -open dump2SOM.pd -nogui" I then get:
6484 pd -open root.pd 6486 pd -open root.pd 6487 pd -open dump2SOM.pd -nogui
Both the "root" pds seem to be real processes, both use memory and interfere with one and other.
I ended up starting both PDs from a bash script to solve the issue.
I just wanted to write to the list, if you see weird duplicate PDs floating on your machine check your use of shell!
This happened on a debian lenny machine with shell from svn and pd 0.40.3.
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