hi,
i want to setup my computer (older intelmac) as audio processor without screen and keyboard. i use pd -nogui. it somehow works.
the actual patch contains fdn~. weird is if i start fdn with gui everything is normal f.e. 64 delay lines and buffersize 40000 samples. with the -nogui options by some reason the creation arguments get ignored and set to something like 65536 and it complaines about not enough delay memory.

it seems to me with -nogui another version of fdn gets loaded...
however the mac under osx starts without any change besides enable remote login also without monitor. i guess it still computes the graphics then. then the patch functions normal. this is not the solution i am looking for. i want it to start properly without guy and also under linux.

yk

i came across another posting about the same thing which helps. (thanks for the research)
if i delay "pd dsp on" for 1000ms, fdn's buffer size gets bigger. though it still says 2097152 samples, 47.55 seconds. i put bs 40000 as creation argument. if i increase to 50000 samples it flips to 4194304, 95.10 seconds. is this a bug or do i miss something?
yk

It's a bug. Delay buffers don't get set right in -nogui mode because the objects for some reason don't get the sample rate in time (I think). IIRC the solution is to load a dummy patch in -nogui mode that does nothing but open the patch you want. Something like this:

[loadbang]
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[open mypatch.pd path/to/mypatch(
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Maybe even delay the [loadbang] for good measure. I've never used -nogui, though, so I may be mistaking this for something else.