I have experienced various system freeze-ups obviously involving the video. I say that because there is a distortion of the colors which stay on the screen when the system freezes. It is always while using Pysol.
The latest is on Xubuntu 14.04.5 fresh install, so it is not the OS as far as I can tell.
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Since nobody else is chiming in with a similar problem, perhaps you should try to run it on a different pc to see if it might be your hardware causing this.
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I'm noticing issues also which seem to occur when pysol is running. A/V playback in my browser halts occasionally. Sometimes I can shut down pysol and things return to normal; playback will begin after I stop/start the video. I can even hold the hand I am playing to shut down pysol and then restart pysol (usually without disrupting the video again) where I left off.
This is not exactly the same as KitchM's issue, but it seems related at very least. I am running Artix (Arch sans systemd) in virtualbox 5.1.32 (though I've seen this continuously in the latest vbox versions). I cannot aver for Artix running host (on hardware) because I don't have a way to test that atm.
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Hi! Does this still happen with the latest pysol version from its github repo - https://github.com/shlomif/PySolFC ? Does htop / etc. shows any excessive activity?
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I meant to add that I've been running htop in a window placed behind other active windows, including pysol, so I can see what is happening when the system slows down. I have it set so I can see CPU usage and the top 2 or 3 processes. I've been doing this for months this way, and in all that time, I've not noticed any behavior that would seem to indicate a problem. The system has 1.5GB allocated to it, and usually, with a browser, email, and pysol uses about 1.3GB of that. It has 2 CPUs which usually run around 80-90%.
Last night, the entire VM froze. This is the first time I've had it get that bad. Usually, I just lose the video and sound.
I have no idea about the latest from the repo.
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I have experienced various system freeze-ups obviously involving the video. I say that because there is a distortion of the colors which stay on the screen when the system freezes. It is always while using Pysol.
The latest is on Xubuntu 14.04.5 fresh install, so it is not the OS as far as I can tell.
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Since nobody else is chiming in with a similar problem, perhaps you should try to run it on a different pc to see if it might be your hardware causing this.
I'm noticing issues also which seem to occur when pysol is running. A/V playback in my browser halts occasionally. Sometimes I can shut down pysol and things return to normal; playback will begin after I stop/start the video. I can even hold the hand I am playing to shut down pysol and then restart pysol (usually without disrupting the video again) where I left off.
This is not exactly the same as KitchM's issue, but it seems related at very least. I am running Artix (Arch sans systemd) in virtualbox 5.1.32 (though I've seen this continuously in the latest vbox versions). I cannot aver for Artix running host (on hardware) because I don't have a way to test that atm.
Hi! Does this still happen with the latest pysol version from its github repo - https://github.com/shlomif/PySolFC ? Does htop / etc. shows any excessive activity?
I meant to add that I've been running htop in a window placed behind other active windows, including pysol, so I can see what is happening when the system slows down. I have it set so I can see CPU usage and the top 2 or 3 processes. I've been doing this for months this way, and in all that time, I've not noticed any behavior that would seem to indicate a problem. The system has 1.5GB allocated to it, and usually, with a browser, email, and pysol uses about 1.3GB of that. It has 2 CPUs which usually run around 80-90%.
Last night, the entire VM froze. This is the first time I've had it get that bad. Usually, I just lose the video and sound.
I have no idea about the latest from the repo.
Can pysol be compiled without sound capability? I mean, easily and simply. If so, I might try that and see if my problem goes away.
edit pysollib/pysolaudio.py and change
try:
import pysolsoundserver
except ImportError:
pysolsoundserver = None
to simply:
pysolsoundserver = None
Thank you for your help. After weeks and weeks of trying to figure this out, the problem has gone away. Even with only 1 vCPU!
I may try your suggestion, above, however. Your program was not the problem.