BlixYZ
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Did Chrome kill my month long no-crash streak?
Since I installed X2 a month ago, I haven't had a single crash. Until today.
It wasn't a very demanding project- I'm not sure set it off but it did crash 2 times- so I know it wasn't just a fluke.
I had left Chrome open and I have not yet (on this machine) told windows that it's not allowed to use my pro audio hardware (so WMP and browsers all use my profire 2626).
Could that have been my crash?
After the 2nd crash i closed chrome and no more crashes occurred.
Fortunately, we didn't lose a single take. I didn't even need the autosaved versions- I save frequently.
Anybody have an opinion on this?
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Paul P
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Re:Did Chrome kill my month long no-crash streak?
2013/03/23 16:31:58
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The feeling I get when I hear a story like yours is that when Sonar wants something from the system,
but that something happens to be temporarily busy right at that moment,
Sonar will crash or otherwise misbehave.
Sonar doesn't seem to like to be kept waiting.
This is only an impression, I have no idea what's going on inside Sonar,
but it seems to me that it could be better at handling difficult situations.
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Re:Did Chrome kill my month long no-crash streak?
2013/03/23 22:13:46
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I've noticed that Chrome likes to launch way more process threads than open tabs which will eat up your available ram. (check your task manager sometime). If "left open", this is a possible cause. Solution is to close it.
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gbarrett
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Re:Did Chrome kill my month long no-crash streak?
2013/03/23 22:48:40
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I've got another user account on my computer just for Sonar. Nothing else installed or enabled on that account. So far it's worked great.
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Re:Did Chrome kill my month long no-crash streak?
2013/03/23 23:06:16
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Chrome is a banned application in my company. If it's on your company laptop the IT police will block you access, e-mail your manager and land you with a whole pile of inconvenience. I don't know why but its reason enough for me not to have it on my personal computers. Not had anough coffee yet this morning  It Opera that is banned.
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sharke
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Re:Did Chrome kill my month long no-crash streak?
2013/03/24 02:45:24
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If I load a webpage in Chrome while playing back music in Sonar, the music stutters and glitches until the page is loaded.
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David
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Re:Did Chrome kill my month long no-crash streak?
2013/03/24 05:07:35
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Yes, I have this problem too with chrome and X2,
The only time it crashes (freezes) is when I have
chrome and X2 open, I still have haven't learned my
Lesson :)
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FCCfirstclass
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Re:Did Chrome kill my month long no-crash streak?
2013/03/24 07:31:03
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Chrome caused crashes when I tried it. Way more threads than necessary. No more chrome for my computer.
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Re:Did Chrome kill my month long no-crash streak?
2013/03/24 11:56:45
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Interesting thread. Good to know about Chrome.
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Re:Did Chrome kill my month long no-crash streak?
2013/03/24 23:21:37
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Hi gbarrett,
Could you describe how you did that? I was also under the impression that I could have a user account with less processes enabled, but wasn't sure. I'm good at Windows operations but wasn't sure if what you described would work.
I'd like to do what you did in order to provide Sonar with all of the resources that it needs.
Thanks,
Duke
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WDI
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Re:Did Chrome kill my month long no-crash streak?
2013/03/24 23:38:31
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is it specific to chrome? what about ie? the first thing that i think is that windows is configured to use the same sound card that sonar is using. this can cause problems when windows tries to change your audio cards sample rate. for me things run good when windows uses the onboard sound chip. this way i can use other windows programs such as internet or wmp while playing sonar at the same time.
post edited by WDI - 2013/03/24 23:46:39
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Re:Did Chrome kill my month long no-crash streak?
2013/03/25 13:21:31
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Starbuckle
Hi gbarrett,
Could you describe how you did that? I was also under the impression that I could have a user account with less processes enabled, but wasn't sure. I'm good at Windows operations but wasn't sure if what you described would work.
I'd like to do what you did in order to provide Sonar with all of the resources that it needs.
Thanks,
Duke
This sounds like a great idea to me as well. As Duke says, I've always known this is an option, but never really knew how. Thanks for any tutorial you might provide! Rob
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Re:Did Chrome kill my month long no-crash streak?
2013/03/25 13:35:39
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Hate Chrome...Hate Google all together. I am living for the day my contract is up and the Droid is gone as well.
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