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<td><br><h2>program limitations</h2></td>
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<title>Manual page for program_limitations(PL)</title>
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<h2>CAPACITY LIMITS</h2>
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Ploticus has these capacity limitations.<tt> </tt>
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They may be raised or lowered by modifying <tt>pl.h</tt>.<tt> </tt>
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Data storage capacity: 1 million characters (data is stored as text).<tt> </tt>
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Max total number of data fields: 200,000
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Max length of a line in a ploticus script: 3000 chars before & after variable evaluation
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Maximum total number of lines in current proc and all #saved procs: 5000
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Max length of variable contents: 250 chars
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Max length of data field: 250 chars
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Max length of input data record: 2998 chars
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Max length of field names and variable names: 38 chars
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Max number of values for rangebar percentile computation: 100,000
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Max number of points for lineplot, scatterplot or curvefit result curve: 50,000.<tt> </tt>
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Max number of points for rangesweep: 33,333.<tt> </tt>
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Max number of scale categories in X: 100; in Y: 100.<tt> </tt>
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Max number of points from which to compute a
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moving average or regression curve in proc curvefit: 5000.
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Bspline curve: 100.<tt> </tt>
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Max number of points in polygon (including line plot w area under curve filled): 1000
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max number of proc tabulate rows 200;
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max number of proc tabulate columns 200;
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max number of proc tabulate ranges 200;
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# of significant characters for differentiation during tabulation 38.<tt> </tt>
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<h2>SYSTEM RESOURCES</h2>
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By default, the max amount of CPU time allowed is 10 seconds, and any files
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created cannot be larger than 5,000,000 bytes.
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These limits are enforced using setrlimit(), and a core dump occurs when
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limits are exceeded. These limits may be modified using a
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