[Rd] Very slow plot rendering with X11 on CentOS 5.5

2010-09-28 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, Weigand, Stephen D. wrote: I am connecting from a PC to a Linux system running CentOS release 5.5 (Final) and it is extremely slow to render plots to the X11 device. The Linux timings are just awful, particularly using X-Win32. Cairo vs. Xlib doesn't seem to matter much.

[Rd] Very slow plot rendering with X11 on CentOS 5.5

2010-09-29 Thread R P Herrold
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, R P Herrold wrote: I am connecting from a PC to a Linux system running CentOS release 5.5 (Final) and it is extremely slow to render plots to the X11 device. f <- function(n){ for(i in 1:n) qqnorm(rnorm(100)) } system.time(f(20)) I'll get a packaging bui

Re: [Rd] Very slow plot rendering with X11 on CentOS 5.5

2010-09-29 Thread R P Herrold
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Weigand, Stephen D. wrote: Many, many thanks for the effort Russ. I'm not clear on next steps but think I need to look at CentOS vs. others in terms of X. I suspect all X will be similar within an order of magnitude, but dunno -- I did not 'tune' the workstation I tested