Sorry, I just tried and killing the watchdog kills pd too, oops. Only way I can see to do it is comment out the line in s_watchdog.c:
kill(getppid(), SIGHUP); and recompile. cheers Miller On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 07:50:31PM +0100, Ingo Scherzinger wrote: > > Freezing the machine shouldn't be a problem. It's only running one pd patch > which is being automatically started right after the system (Ubuntu Stutio > 8.04) has booted up. The patch won't be edited after that. > I'll have to see how I can kill watchdog before it does anything. Is there a > startup flag I could use to start pd without watchdog or what would be the > best way to start pd without it? > > Ingo > > > > Hmmm -- it shouldn't have any effect, but I can't swear i doesn't. > > To find out, I think you can just kill the watchdog process and see > > if the flakiness goes away. Only downside to that is you no longer > > have protection against Pd freezing your machine :) > > > > Miller > > > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 05:54:11PM +0100, Ingo Scherzinger wrote: > > > >I am getting pd-watchdog signals during loading of a pd patch on a "- > > nogui" > > > system. > > > > > > >I read that watchdog is trying to stop the pd thread to prevent lockup > > when > > > it can't get any pings to respond in time. Now the question is: > > > > > > >Is it possible that there are portions of the pd patch not loading > > > correctly when this happens? BTW it happens with the "-rt" flag on and > > off. > > > And the patch is very large. > > > > > > > > > > > > I just noticed the reason this might be happening is that I am starting > > some > > > other patches (samplervoices) during the initial loading of the patch > > which > > > need quite some time to load. But the question remains: can there be > > loading > > > errors because of that? And I do have some strange things happening with > > > this patch lately! > > > > > > > > > > > > Ingo > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Pd-list@iem.at mailing list > > > UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> > > http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list