<![CDATA[Pure Data Crashing My Computer]]>Hey All,

Purr-Data seems to be causing my computer to crash.

I was running Antergos' bleeding edge kernel when the issue began. In an attempt to fix the problem, I overhauled my system and installed realtime LTS Manjaro. Still Crashing.

I thought the issue was maybe that my Bios had virtual machines disabled. I enabled them, and at first I thought the problem was fixed but then I got another crash.

My computer has a 4.0 ghz processor and 32 GBs of RAM. Htop shows me that I'm not really putting too much pressure on the system even.

When the crash happens, everything freezes on my Desktop, but audio is still processed by both Ardour and Purr-Data. I'm using (tragically) an Nvidia card with proprietary drivers. Could this be the issue?

I can't seem to crack this nut, friends. I spent all day yesterday and much of today on it. If you have any ideas about what might be going on, please send a lifeboat my way!

]]>http://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/11925/pure-data-crashing-my-computerRSS for NodeSun, 10 May 2026 09:04:34 GMTThu, 28 Feb 2019 08:45:55 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Pure Data Crashing My Computer on Thu, 28 Feb 2019 08:45:55 GMT]]>Hey All,

Purr-Data seems to be causing my computer to crash.

I was running Antergos' bleeding edge kernel when the issue began. In an attempt to fix the problem, I overhauled my system and installed realtime LTS Manjaro. Still Crashing.

I thought the issue was maybe that my Bios had virtual machines disabled. I enabled them, and at first I thought the problem was fixed but then I got another crash.

My computer has a 4.0 ghz processor and 32 GBs of RAM. Htop shows me that I'm not really putting too much pressure on the system even.

When the crash happens, everything freezes on my Desktop, but audio is still processed by both Ardour and Purr-Data. I'm using (tragically) an Nvidia card with proprietary drivers. Could this be the issue?

I can't seem to crack this nut, friends. I spent all day yesterday and much of today on it. If you have any ideas about what might be going on, please send a lifeboat my way!

]]>http://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/11925/pure-data-crashing-my-computerhttp://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/11925/pure-data-crashing-my-computerThu, 28 Feb 2019 08:45:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pure Data Crashing My Computer on Thu, 28 Feb 2019 15:13:56 GMT]]>First question: what version of Purr Data are you using?

Some triage points:

  • what happens if you run Purr Data in "-nogui" mode? Still get a crash?

  • what happens if you run Purr Data with valgrind? Try installing valgrind and on the command line run valgrind pd-l2ork. It should output any memory errors to the console.

  • what happens if you run Purr Data with gdb?

]]>http://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/11925/pure-data-crashing-my-computer/2http://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/11925/pure-data-crashing-my-computer/2Thu, 28 Feb 2019 15:13:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pure Data Crashing My Computer on Thu, 28 Feb 2019 15:16:01 GMT]]>Another question: can you get Purr Data to freeze without Ardour/Jack running?

]]>http://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/11925/pure-data-crashing-my-computer/3http://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/11925/pure-data-crashing-my-computer/3Thu, 28 Feb 2019 15:16:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pure Data Crashing My Computer on Thu, 28 Feb 2019 15:17:22 GMT]]>One more helpful flag: try pd-l2ork -nrt on the command line and see if you can still cause the freeze.

]]>http://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/11925/pure-data-crashing-my-computer/4http://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/11925/pure-data-crashing-my-computer/4Thu, 28 Feb 2019 15:17:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Pure Data Crashing My Computer on Mon, 04 Mar 2019 05:39:24 GMT]]>Thanks for the quick response. I will try these and let you know about it sometime this week.

]]>http://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/11925/pure-data-crashing-my-computer/5http://forum.pdpatchrepo.info/topic/11925/pure-data-crashing-my-computer/5Mon, 04 Mar 2019 05:39:24 GMT