[chuck-users] Fwd: chuck 1.3.1 on Windows 32-bit - possible OSC issue - update re: 1.3.1.1

[Ge Wang]

Hi Simon!

> I've tried r.ck and s.ck on 1.3.1.1 and am getting the same issues as 
> before. Either Chuck crashes immediately or soon after adding s.ck... or 
> if things proceed, removing r.ck causes the crash. And it does seem the 
> longer you leave things running, the more certain you'll get a  crash 
> when removing r.ck.
> 
> Ditto for my own patches using OSC... although there have been times 
> when things have run on for a bit without crashing near, or at, the very 
> beginning.. which wasn't the case with 1.3.1.0. If things do get going 
> there are two specific places where things go then awry.. at the first 
> place the sound breaks down into "white noise" for a few seconds but the 
> shreds continue unabated... the second place occurs a few seconds later 
> with a "proper" crash. I only mention the first of these because I've 
> never had happen at that point with previous versions of Chuck. To my 
> eyes at least nothing particular stands out in the code at these points 
> other than there are a lot of shreds active. Also, I've had 
> the "OutOfMemory: while allocating stack" error message a couple of 
> times. 
> 
> I'm not sure if the above is the sort of information that helps... but 
> if there is anything I can do to provide additional info, please let me 
> know.

This is super helpful - we'll look into it starting on windows 32-bit 
(s.ck and r.ck seems OK on OS X).  Thank you!

Ge!

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Simon Steptoe <simonsteptoe at yahoo.co.uk>
> Date: 11 September 2012 09:45
> Subject: chuck 1.3.1 on Windows 32-bit - possible OSC issue
> To: chuck-users at lists.cs.princeton.edu
> 
> 
> Some of my existing patches are causing Chuck 1.3.1 to lock-up and crash.
> I think I've traced it back to a possible OSC issue as the example
> files s.ck and r.ck seem to cause the same problem... which would make sense
> in that my affected patches are also using OSC events.  If the patch gets
> going at all, removing the shred(s) also causes a crash. OSC_send.ck and
> OSC_recv.ck however seem to work fine. 
> 
> On my own patches I can sometimes catch the error message; "OutOfMemory:
> while allocating stack"... increasing buffer size and/or decreasing sample
> rate seem to alleviate the problem somewhat in that things keep running a
> few seconds longer, but eventually the result is the same. However, I guess
> this might not be the same issue as with s.ck and r.ck. Running Chuck with
> --silent doesn't resolve things either.
> 
> My machine is Windows 7, 32-bit... to be fair it is a bit on the old side
> (Pentium 4)... but it's coped fine with previous versions of Chuck and
> miniAudicle.... and I can't replicate the issue with Chuck 1.3.0.2.
> 
> Many thanks.
> 
> Simon
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