Dear Mohammed,

such an issue can happen, yes. The reason is that command line
parameters are not (cannot be) automatically communicated to the
externalization child processes.

There are different approaches to solve the issue: issue the
externalization command manually (what you did), add your command line
options for save-size and -mem-max to externalization option "system
call" or, which is probably the simplest way, by writing the memory
options once and for all times into a configuration file. The two
approaches are described in the pgfplots manual and (probably in more
detail) in the PGF CVS documentation.

Best regards

Christian

PS
I cc'ed the answer to the mailing list since it may be of general interest.

Mohammed Setti wrote:
> Good morening dear Christian,
> Yesterday, I have tried to export my simulation results (16 figures
> grouped in one page) using external tikz library, unfortunately, the
> task was fail, I don't know why, but the compilation was led to success
> when I try to omit your utility. I check my emacs/auctex configurations,
> especially those are in special mode :
>  '(TeX-source-specials-tex-flags "-src-specials -enable-write18
> -save-size 80000 -mem-max 90000000")
> I suspect that the large amount of data used to generate plots is
> responsible to this issue, perhaps external utility requests itshelf an
> amount of memory which may overflow the TeX capacity !!!
>  
> Best reagrds
> 
> 
> -- 
> Eng. Mohammed SETTI
> PhD Student in Photovoltaic & Renewable Energy Engineering
> Laboratory of Electrical Engineering & Maintenance
> Higher School of Technology -- Oujda City, Morocco


-- 
Christian Feuersaenger
Institut fuer Numerische Simulation
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universitaet Bonn
Wegelerstrasse 6
D-53115 Bonn
Germany

Tel:  +49 228 733430
URL:  http://wissrech.ins.uni-bonn.de/people/feuersaenger.html

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