Define Parallel Plotting

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Plotting has 4 phases.

  1. generate lots of info very CPU heavy.
  2. combine them down into the tables. very RAM heavy
  3. compress them down into the final information. very disk I/O heavy (this is what the -2 second temp directory is for)
  4. copy the plot to the final destination.

Current wisdom on 1.1.2 is that you only need 128 buckets and 3400MB of RAM to make sure the work is done with uniform sort and never fails back to quicksort.

So if you stagger the start times, you should be able to improve your performance and not overlap bottlnecks. Everyone’s setup is different though. More CPU threads helps in phase 1 to go faster.
If you run out of RAM your plots will crash and plots cannot be saved if interrupted. (currently).

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