Re: gnuplot slow on BIG files

[Dimitrios A. <ji...@gm...>]

Ethan Merritt wrote:
> Instead we should modify the replot command so that it re-uses
> the data previously read in if at all possible.
> 
I believe this would be a nice fix. Since replot is mostly used in 
interactive mode, this should not break many scripts. And perhaps a 
"reread" command would be nice for rereading the input file.

> gnuplot core code must run on systems other than linux.
> And even for linux your statement is not true.  Many people doing
> serious number crunching will not run linux in overcommit mode, because
> it is too painful to see a computation which has already run for 3 days
> be killed by the OOM killer just because someone has opened a web browser,
> or in this case because they try to run gnuplot.

I agree with you and don't like overcommit mode myself. How do you turn 
it off?

Dimitris