Hi every body !
I'm workink on a patch with 180 sound subpatches. On MacBook Intel 2Core, 4 Go Ram, Pd 0.40.3-extended.
Each subpatches have a switch~ and an outlet~. my problem is that sometimes my CPU inflate to 110% and if I switch on and switch off a switch (not anyone I don't no why) the cpu come back to 30% aporximately.

Did anyone understand something to that ? Please tell me something !!

Do you have the sounds loaded in tables? As far as I know, if you are dealing with such amount of sound files, it consumes less CPU power to play them through [sfplay~] (I assume they are pre-recorded, not live-sampled).

Just to be certain, are the [switch~]es turned off with a [loadbang(-->[0( when the patches are loaded?

To Tcihan no I don't use samples and to Maelstorm no I don't turned off the switches when I load the patches. I will try it and I will tell you.

Thank you both ! !

Finaly it don't come from the switch~. It looks like a conflict between some objects.

are you using [vline~] ?? if you send messages to [vline~] while it is switched off, it can cause troubles.

Yes I understood what was wrong in my patches. It's exactly what you said administrator. While I switched off a patches, the data was always sent and cause a stack overflow.

Thank you very much. Now I'm debuging 90 patches. Wouhou !