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

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