FSP8 freezing when left on overnight/extended periods

[BobF]

Hey. It's not FSP8 and it's not Win11. I've encountered the need to reboot after leaving a song open without doing anything for long periods of times since Win7 and S1 V2. Not always, but sometimes here and there. It also seems to have something to do with leaving a fuller production open than a lean one. Sure, there's something to be said for leaving a production always open in case inspiration strikes, only in the SSD era with bootup times thirty seconds or less is restarting or rebooting really still a deterrent?

Def light productions here I don't shut my machines down, but I do save FSP sessions frequently and sometimes exit FSP at the end of the day. Same with drawing/painting apps. I visit my workstation multiple times a day rather than once a day for however long - the freedom of retirement I can leave a session open for days at a time without thinking about it. No problems with crashes/freezes ever. I just don't think about it until one of these topics comes up.

My current machine boots from SSD, but takes considerably longer than 30 secs to be ready to go from power off. Reboot is even long enough to get bored. It might not be true these days, but I came up in the computing era where power cycles were considered life shortening. Old dogs and their tricks. I started working on computing machines when they were 7' tall and weighed 1000# fully loaded with 16K of actual core memory. My first PCs were before the PC.

Would it hurt me to exit all apps and power down each evening? Probably not, but my first espresso would be long gone before the machine was ready for another day.

BTW, I have extensive backups that run nightly at 1:00am and 3:00am. So there is that too

 

[MisterE]

Def light productions here I don't shut my machines down, but I do save FSP sessions frequently and sometimes exit FSP at the end of the day. Same with drawing/painting apps. I visit my workstation multiple times a day rather than once a day for however long - the freedom of retirement I can leave a session open for days at a time without thinking about it. No problems with crashes/freezes ever. I just don't think about it until one of these topics comes up.

My current machine boots from SSD, but takes considerably longer than 30 secs to be ready to go from power off. Reboot is even long enough to get bored. It might not be true these days, but I came up in the computing era where power cycles were considered life shortening. Old dogs and their tricks. I started working on computing machines when they were 7' tall and weighed 1000# fully loaded with 16K of actual core memory. My first PCs were before the PC.

Would it hurt me to exit all apps and power down each evening? Probably not, but my first espresso would be long gone before the machine was ready for another day.

BTW, I have extensive backups that run nightly at 1:00am and 3:00am. So there is that too

All right, so you grew up with a Cray One I believe you're describing the longer than thirty seconds startup time for your long in the tooth, i7-6700, not your spanking new 265. Correct?

Speaking of old dogs and PC history, I hold the honor of paying $450 for 1 meg (not a typo!) Ram for a Mac SE in 1990 or so. That should get me the Guinness Book of World Records for overpaying for a single PC component.

 

[BobF]

All right, so you grew up with a Cray One I believe you're describing the longer than thirty seconds startup time for your long in the tooth, i7-6700, not your spanking new 265. Correct?

Speaking of old dogs and PC history, I hold the honor of paying $450 for 1 meg (not a typo!) Ram for a Mac SE in 1990 or so. That should get me the Guinness Book of World Records for overpaying for a single PC component.

Yes, the 265 isn't here yet.

 

[MisterE]

Well then those days are over. Onwards and upwards!