Re: plot buffer exceeded

[Steve Hankin <hankin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Mark,

Try a search on "plot buffer" in the email archives at
    http://ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/marc-search.cgi

You'll find a couple of solutions to this problem.

    - steve

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Mark Rehbein wrote:

> Hi Fellow Ferrets,
>
> I need some help!
>
> I am using ferret to plot some noaa satellite imagery.  When i try to
> "shade" a large amount of image data, ferret returns the following
> message:
>
> **ERROR: a program limit has been reached: 1040800 points to plot
>           Plot buffer size is: 990000
>
> I did try to increase the amount of memory available to ferret using the
> -memsize command line argument, but to no effect.  Is there some way of
> increasing the plot buffer size to fulfil my image plotting requests or
> is this a hard coded constraint?
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> thanks
>
> mark
>
> Mark Rehbein
> Intranet Developer
> Australian Institute of Marine Science

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