Re: CPU problems only after hours

Antoine Rousseau <[email protected]> Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:22:19 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.puredata.general
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Another possibility: you're creating too many Pd symbols.

This often happens when generating gui labels from sensor values or other
high-resolution values.
Things like
[label bar:$1_beat:$2_tick:$3_ms:$4(
or
[symbol sensor:$1(
can quickly build hundreds of thousands of symbols, that will stay
registered forever.

The symbol hash-table (hence the gensym() fonction) can become rather slow
when too many symbols are registered.

Antoine


Le mar. 14 avr. 2026 à 14:05, cyrille henry via Pd-list <
[email protected]> a écrit :

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> Le 14/04/2026 à 12:59, Jakobweb via Pd-list a écrit :
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> > Do you have some ideas that could point me into the right direction?
> My 1st guess : if the computer is becoming hot, the max CPU frequency is
> decreased by the hardware so the computer becomes slower.
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> Cheers
> c
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