Bugs item #1845770, was opened at 2007-12-06 15:15 Message generated for change (Tracker Item Submitted) made by Item Submitter You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=478070&aid=1845770&group_id=55736
Please note that this message will contain a full copy of the comment thread, including the initial issue submission, for this request, not just the latest update. Category: None Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Private: No Submitted By: stereopticon (stereopticon) Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody) Summary: PiDiP ascii renderer eats mac hard disks Initial Comment: ...iknow, it sounds like a tabloid headline. I'm running OSX 10.4.11 on a Macbook Pro 2.16 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. I upgraded to pd 0.39.3-extended-rc5 recently and began messing around with the PiDiP ascii renderer. Early in a day of testing I loaded an 11-second, 640x480 quicktime clip compressed with the H.264 codec into pdp_ascii-help.pd and got…nothing. The patch became completely unresponsive to mouse clicks and I ended up having to quit and relaunch pd and X11. I eventually discovered that pdp_ascii works with the Sorenson video 3 codec and spent a happy hour turning bits of things into ascii art. Then I noticed something strange. The hard drive was nearly full. As I watched in shock, it filled up completely. A couple of minutes of searching found the culprit: my console log file for the session was 36 gigs. Turns out that all that space was taken up by a single message, “skipping corrupted frame”, spit out over and over again at the ridiculous rate of 4 megs/sec. Trying to load the H.264 quicktime is what initiated the loop. I’ve been able to replicate it and came up with the following info: the bug runs independent of pd and X11, hogs 80% of the CPU, and since for some reason the process is tied to the OSX loginwindow process I was only able to kill it by logging out. Cheers, Michael ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can respond by visiting: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=478070&aid=1845770&group_id=55736 _______________________________________________ PD-dev mailing list PD-dev@iem.at http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-dev
