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Posted: Dec 12th 2008 5:32AM (Unverified) said

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I bet it will freeze my Mac horribley within the first 20 mins of use making me revert back to the Nicholaz cool viewer 1.19....

I shall let you know
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Posted: Dec 12th 2008 9:13AM (Unverified) said

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Took just over 15 minutes before the viewer froze and crashed. Though LL seem to be working on it, as it did not take my whole computer down with it this time. So they are getting somewhere... oh well back to 1.19
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Posted: Dec 12th 2008 11:01PM (Unverified) said

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isn't there an alternative to intentionally crashing? that functionality is good for humor, but I find it weird they actually wanna be associated with things that crash on purpose, the thread watchdog thing kinda makes the users be crash test dummies...


hm...I'm not in conditions to be sure I'm making sense, please accept my apologies if I didn't
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Posted: Dec 13th 2008 1:29AM (Unverified) said

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Well, the idea of the thread watchdog is that it triggers when an important thread stops working (which usually ends up freezing the whole viewer within the next several seconds) or when the whole viewer freezes.

The watchdog then generates a crash so that information about what caused the freeze can be sent back to the engineers at the Lab.
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Posted: Dec 13th 2008 3:55PM (Unverified) said

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ah, it is meant to have freezes provide more feedback, I see...wait, then why do they make it crash more in the first RCs ? are the freezes on the following versions less important?
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