UPDATE FROM MABULA
I have had a very rough 2 months unfortunately health wise. I was struck 3x in a row with bacterial infections. The second infection occurred after a routine hospital checkup and I became very sick. I had to rest and take a lot of antibiotics. Once I was recovering and restarting work 1 month ago, I again became sick. The infection was not yet gone, so even more antibiotics and rest was needed. Needless to say, it took a lot of my energy and I needed a lot of rest.
Finally, the infection is really gone and my energy is coming back step-by-step now and I have started work again. I am terribly sorry to have kept you waiting for support. I will address all outstanding questions and e-mails step-by step and will be on the forum daily from today.
APP 2.0.0-beta47 will come soon as well, a lot of work was already completed before I became very ill, so the release is also nearly ready for you. Beta47 will be much faster actually. Many workflows will be more than 2x faster, mosaics can even be 10x faster than before because registration really received a major boost... all compared to beta46. Before I release it, I will make sure that everything is working properly and then I will release it.
My 2015 macbook pro processes so slowly that I frequently leave it on overnight, so it can work while I sleep.
Played with PI for a bit, now I'm back using APP again. The new version I downloaded (1.079) seems to crash my machine on these overnight sessions. If I 'babysit' the computer and prevent it from sleeping...it works fine... But I can no longer leave it on it's own. 🙁
Because my computer is SO SLOW, I have previously requested a "pause" button in APP, so I can do something important when I need to. It's now needed more than ever!!
A pause button would be interesting, but I'm not sure if that's as easy as you think. APP stores a lot of data in memory to be able to process. Pausing that would require a "state dump" to disk or something like that. And that should work very reliably. I can suggest this to Mabula for extra input.
Also, what kind of crash are we talking about? Couldn't you switch off the sleeping when you're processing?
When I check the computer in the morning, it has completed a reboot. Total system crash.
That is strange, I've not seen APP doing that previously. I'm wondering if the system itself is having an issue at some point. APP will max out your resources if you let it, stressing the system quite a lot. As it's an older machine, maybe something else is also causing such a crash? Maybe try to lower the amount of memory a bit and lower the amount of cores APP can use. This will make APP slower, but maybe your system doesn't like these amount of resources.
It can run with high settings all day long and have no problem (other than being unusable for anything else). APP won't crash and works just fine. It's something to do with the 'sleep' mode. When I avoid that, all is fine.
When I do get a new laptop, it's gonna be a monster. I'm SO tired of it being slow. What's more important: Memory or cores? Both is obviously the best...
