On 09.07.2008 22:05, merritt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Tomi_Pievil=E4inen?= <tpievila@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>Very often when trying to plot small data files (just 10-20 lines) I
>>get "Cairo is unhappy: out of memory" after which gnuplot simply hangs
>>(have to use kill -9). Using 4.2 with patchlevel 2 from Ubuntu
>>repository. There should be no problems with memory, there's over 600
>>megs free (counting swap in).
>>
>>Any hints on where I should look for the solution?
>
> According to this URL:
> http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2007-July/010983.html
> that error message is totally bogus. I.e., something went wrong in
cairo
> but it does not necessarily have anything at all to do with memory.
> Unfortunately, that doesn't help much.
>
> Most of the problems I've had with cairo have been font problems,
> but I've never seen that particular message.
Would be interesting to know which cairo version is running on the
affected Ubuntu machine. Because I have checked in the sources of the
1.0, 1.2, 1.4, and 1.6 releases and haven't found "unhappy" anywhere...
Peter.


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