Re: printing problems because of memory consumption of gs

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 01/04/2015 09:40 AM, Torsten wrote:
> With a recent build from the gui-release branch I encounter the problem
> that printing a figure (gnuplot) starts a gs-process that consumes up to
> 2 GB of memory. This makes it nearly impossible to build the docs on a
> computer with only 2 GB. Plotting directly in gnuplot with an eps-, pdf-
> or png-terminal is no problem. Is anyone else seeing this issue?
>
> Best regards,
> Torsten

I ran across a compilation bug (and created a small changeset):

https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?43932

After fixing that I don't see such an issue that you describe, but I'm 
not sure what command you are using.  I simply switched to the gnuplot 
graphics toolkit and did a simple plot and print:

> > graphics_toolkit gnuplot
> > plot([1:500])
> > print

and see no large ghostscript process appearing.

The problems I'm having stem from failure to build documentation, such 
as the following example:

GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2270:initable_init: assertion failed: 
(connection->initialization_error == NULL)
octave exited with signal 6
../../run-octave -f -q -H -p 
/home/sebald/octave/octave/octave/doc/interpreter --eval "splineimages 
('splinefit1', 'pdf');"

which happens for about 100 examples.  This splines example takes a 
really long time to run, btw.  Following that I have issues building the 
tex files because of missing figures.

Then after installation I see:

> > help print
error: unable to open /usr/local/share/octave/3.9.0+/etc/macros.texi for 
reading
error: called from:
error:   /usr/local/share/octave/3.9.0+/m/help/__makeinfo__.m at line 
103, column 5
error:   /usr/local/share/octave/3.9.0+/m/help/help.m at line 99, column 22

I'll investigate this when I can, probably something missing on my system.

Dan