[Maxima] Multiple maxima instances and maxout.gnuplot_pipes

[Raymond Toy (RT/EUS)]

Mario Rodriguez wrote:
> Raymond Toy (RT/EUS) escribió:
>> I didn't know that.  Do you know if the problem was with gnuplot or 
>> with maxima?  Just curious.
> 
> I don't know, but why not with the pipe itself? I am not 100% sure they 
> are robust enough for sending large sets of data.

Yeah, I guess it could be the pipe itself.  There is a size limit 
(usually about 5K) on what you can "atomically" write to a pipe.  But 
other than that, pipes should work.  I used to have a simulation that 
hooked 10-15 processes together that piped >= 10000 frames of data, each 
frame consisting of thousands of bytes.  The simulations may not have 
worked right, but it wasn't because of the pipes. :-)


> 
> Sorry, but I don't remember if I tested the problem building maxima with 
> different lisps.

No problem.  I was just curious.

Ray