Rene, > > > > my root-macro executes very fast until it reaches the part, > > where the postscript file is generated. The cpu-usage drops > > from about 99% to less then 3%. > > > > Thomas, > In this part of the macro, you draw 400 histograms. This may take a long > time > depending how many channels you have per histogram and your options. 50*( 3 * 128 channels + 2 * 100 channels + 10 ch + 25 ch + 50 ch) > Is your Postcript file generated on an AFS disk? No it is generated on the local scratch disk. > What is the size of the generated ps file? 2973 KB But all this doesn't explain the very low cpu-usage. One further thing we have to consider the display. I'm computing in Zuerich and displaying in Hamburg over a ssh-connection. Is it possible, that root is waiting for some X11-messages? If this is the case, is it possible to generate the ps-file without display the histograms on X11? Thomas
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