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Re: [OT] Mail hangs real-time processes
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Re: [OT] Mail hangs real-time processes


  • Subject: Re: [OT] Mail hangs real-time processes
  • From: Lubor Prikryl <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 21:11:26 +0100

Hi Jeff,
I didn't wanna tease you, but for several machines I have seen, this seems to be a general issue: iTunes, QuickTimePlayer or preview playback is much more interrupted by other threads in Panther than in Jaguar. Well, the QT playback is different from Core Audio and this mail had to reach another list, but I only wanted to confirm, that some CPU consuming action may interrupt easily QT Playback, which disqualifies it for professional use.

Regards

Lubor Prikryl, DSound, www.dsound1.com



On 6.1.2004, at 1:57, Jeff Moore wrote:

Let's not be hasty in speculating on what might have happened and why. Can you provide a bit more detail? Some of the questions that spring to mind:

- What was iTunes doing prior to it freezing?
- What was Mail doing when the freeze happened?
- What hardware was involved here?
- What other apps were running and what were they doing?
- While hung, could other apps play sound?
- Can you make the hang happen again?
- If you can get it to happen again, getting a sample(1) trace of the hang for iTunes, Mail and any other hung process would be helpful.

On Jan 5, 2004, at 4:14 PM, Jens Bauer wrote:

I'd like to put up a warning...

I just experienced, while having iTunes running, Mail.app made iTunes freeze for more than half a minute.

OUCH! -There's something completely wrong with Mail.app. I don't know if it's fixed for Panther, I'm using 10.2.8.
I believe that this has to do with some locking mechanism, to prevent other applications writing in the files that Mail.app has open.
Indeed, this is insane, because then every application should implement that kind of security. I believe it would be right to implement it only while receiving mail over the network.

Anyway, I believe the solution is to keep Mail.app off computers that need to process data in realtime.
-Did anyone else experience this?

--

Jeff Moore
Core Audio
Apple
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