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gnuplot limitations

I'm running a simulation (programmed in C) which makes calls to gnuplot periodically to plot data I have stored.

First I open a pipe to gnuplot and set it to multiplot:

FILE * pipe = popen("gnuplot", "w");
fprintf(pipe, "set multiplot\n");
fflush(pipe);

(this pipe stays open until the end of the program when I open it)

Next I use fopen to open a file called "plot". Write all the commands I want to have plotted (there's quite a few of them as many of them are just plotting 1 point with a specific color and point style). Once I've written all the commands to plot I close "plot"

Then I use the pipe again to load my file

fprintf(pipe, "load \"plot\"\n");

I'm running it like this so I can constantly plot on the same window and see my plots in real time as the program runs.

Functionally it works but a delay starts to build up and eventually becomes extremely significant.

My load commands are generally on the order of 2000 lines.

So to actually get to a question, does gnuplot have strange behavior for very large loads or can plot take a long time with that. My guess is that my program is piping loads to gnuplot before previous commands are finished completing. Has anyone had experience with this kind of situation, or can anyone suggest a better method for real time plotting in C.

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bno_plot

BNO_PLOT(1)															       BNO_PLOT(1)

NAME

       bno_plot - generate interactive 3D plot of IO blocks and sizes

SYNOPSIS

       bno_plot [ -h | --help ]
		[ -v | --verbose ]
		[ -K | --keys-below ]
		[ <file...> ]

DESCRIPTION

       bno_plot  is  a	visualization  tool  for the block layer IO tracing tool called blktrace(8).  As noted in its documentation, blktrace is a
       block layer IO tracing mechanism which provides detailed information about request queue operations up to user space.

       bno_plot utilizes gnuplot to generate a 3D plot of the block number output from btt.  If no <files> are	specified,  it	will  utilize  all
       files generated after btt was run with -B blknos (meaning: all files of the form blknos*[rw].dat).

       The -K option forces bno_plot to put the keys below the graph.  If it is not specified, all keys for input files are put in the upper right
       corner of the graph. If the number of devices exceed 10, then bno_plot will automatically push the keys under the graph.

       To use this utility, the gnuplot package needs to be installed.

       To exit the plotter, enter 'quit' or ^D at the 'gnuplot> ' prompt.

AUTHORS

       bno_plot was written by Alan D. Brunelle.  This man page was created from the blktrace documentation by Bas Zoetekouw.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report bugs to <linux-btrace@vger.kernel.org>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2008 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
       This  is  free  software.   You	 may   redistribute   copies   of   it	 under	 the   terms   of   the   GNU	General   Public   License
       <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.	There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
       This  manual  page  was	created  for Debian by Bas Zoetekouw.  It was derived from the documentation provided by the authors and it may be
       used, distributed and modified under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2.
       On Debian systems, the text of the GNU General Public License can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.

SEE ALSO

       btt (1), gnuplot (1), blktrace (8), blkparse (1), verify_blkparse (1), blkrawverify (1)

blktrace git-20080213182518					 February 22, 2007						       BNO_PLOT(1)

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