On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Thomas Scofield <[email protected]> wrote: > > Could this also be the source of my problem? Code like > var('x y z t') p1 = parametric_plot3d((x,0,z), (x,-1.2,1.2), (z,-1.2,1.2), > color='green', opacity=.65) p2 = parametric_plot3d((x,2-x,z), (x,-1.2,1.2), > (z,-1.2,1.2), color='green', opacity=.65) p3 = parametric_plot3d((sin(t), y, > cos(t)), (t,0,2*pi), (y,-0.5,3), color='blue', opacity=.65) show(p1+p2+p3) > resulted in nothing at all, when before I've received a nice 3D plot. One > student told me this am he has been experiencing this kind of behavior back > into the weekend. We (my students and I) are all working off of sagenb.org. > > On Mar 1, 2010, at 11:29 AM, Dana Ernst wrote: > > I was attempting to convince my calculus students this morning in class to > play with Sage when doing their homework instead of using Wolfram|Alpha all > the time. However, this failed miserably because maxima wasn't working on > sagenb.org (at least it wasn't around 10:30 AM EST and it still isn't > working as I type this email). When I entered stuff like > > integral(x*e^(-x),x) > > I got an error message about maxima: > > Traceback (click to the left of this block for traceback) > ... > TypeError: Unable to start maxima because the command 'maxima-noreadline > --userdir="/tmp/sagenbws/maxima" -p > "/usr/local/sage2/local/bin/sage-maxima.lisp"' failed. > Is this a problem on my end or is something up with sagenb.org? > > Thanks. >
It's with sagenb. Somebody again "fork bombed" sagenbws. I've killed all processes, and I'll raise the process limit somewhat (maybe 200 is too restrictive). William -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
