On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, R P Herrold wrote:
I am connecting from a PC to a Linux system running CentOS
release 5.5 (Final) and it is extremely slow to render plots
to the X11 device.
f - function(n){
for(i in 1:n) qqnorm(rnorm(100))
}
system.time(f(20))
I'll get a packaging built under
Many, many thanks for the effort Russ. I'm not clear on next steps
but think I need to look at CentOS vs. others in terms of X.
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From: R P Herrold [mailto:herr...@owlriver.com]
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On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, R P Herrold wrote:
I am
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Weigand, Stephen D. wrote:
Many, many thanks for the effort Russ. I'm not clear on next steps
but think I need to look at CentOS vs. others in terms of X.
I suspect all X will be similar within an order of magnitude,
but dunno -- I did not 'tune' the workstation I tested
I am connecting from a PC to a Linux system running CentOS
release 5.5 (Final) and it is extremely slow to render plots
to the X11 device.
This is not R's fault but I wonder if anyone can offer
guidance so I can help the system administrators address
the problem.
I can connect to the Linux
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, Weigand, Stephen D. wrote:
I am connecting from a PC to a Linux system running CentOS
release 5.5 (Final) and it is extremely slow to render plots
to the X11 device.
The Linux timings are just awful, particularly using
X-Win32. Cairo vs. Xlib doesn't seem to matter much.
For whatever it is worth, a long time ago I had this problem when ssh
-X connecting to a server and doing simple plots such as plot(1:10).
It was painfully slow and I could see how each data points was
plotted. After using X11.options(type=Xlib) in R things was back to
normal (fast) again. I
