Hi!
maybe it's a funny problem, some times houdini may hang and i have not saved the file.is it possible to make a memory error or something to ask houdini save the file in tmp folder? both widows and linux.

I rarely see Houdini "hang". When it is unresponsive, it generally is calculating something. Check the lower left corner of the application for status messages. Try pressing the ESC-KEY to stop the calculation. Also, there is a "backup" folder were you can recover the last version of your project if you force quite Houdini.

Enivob
I rarely see Houdini "hang". When it is unresponsive, it generally is calculating something. Check the lower left corner of the application for status messages. Try pressing the ESC-KEY to stop the calculation. Also, there is a "backup" folder were you can recover the last version of your project if you force quite Houdini.

Apologies on reviving an old thread - but it hangs quite often for me. The entire interface will turn grey, it will say "Not Responsive" in the top menu-bar, and nothing appears in the bottom left corner's text readout because the entire UI is greyed. Usually it is indeed processing something still, but pressing escape doesn't do anything, and I just have to wait for it to finish whatever it is trying to do.

On linux you can send a SIGSEGV or SIGFPE signal to kill it and still try to generate a crash file. There may be other signals that also generate crash files, but SIGKILL does not.

On Windows, you're out of luck as it doesn't have signals.

Yes, on Linux: works, or (you have to check with ps -ef to see what "houdini" is on your system.... it might be houdini-bin or houdini-fx or something like that).

mrCatfish
Yes, on Linux:

kill -SEGV PID

works, or

killall -SEGV houdini-bin

(you have to check with ps -ef to see what "houdini" is on your system.... it might be houdini-bin or houdini-fx or something like that).

Also works on MacOS!