On Nov 27, 2006, at 4:56 PM, Ragnar Helgi Olafsson wrote:

Hi all

I am getting a bit tired restarting my stream. The patch (and PD)
freeze up all too regularly (once a day at least, it seems). I have
tried a fixed IP (didn't help) and even installed a clean 10.4 system
on the old iMac (500mhz) that is doing the streaming ... ideas? Anyone?

I don't have any real solution to your problem, but....

We were having problems with Pd 'freezing up' about once a day. As a quick fix I added a loadbang to start the patch, created an alias to the patch and added it to my 'Startup Items' (in System Preferences -> Users) and then set 'Timed shutdown/startup' (in System Preferences -> Energy Saver -> Schedule...) so that once a day the machine shuts down, waits ten minutes, and then restarts... in turn launching and starting the patch.

I'm not sure if that's a option for you, but it's worked so far for us.

The only other thing I can suggest is: have you checked the logs? You can use the 'Console' app (in Utilities) to look at the main system log and the crash reporter... perhaps Pd posted messages, and hopefully they might lead to finding out why Pd is hanging.

Good luck

Robb

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Robb Drinkwater

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The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

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