General ⇒ Pgfplot error

[jhapk]

My data file is quite big. I am getting the following error (output here is from the log file):

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[Loading MPS to PDF converter (version 2006.09.02).]
\scratchcounter=\count105
\scratchdimen=\dimen162
\scratchbox=\box36
\nofMPsegments=\count106
\nofMParguments=\count107
\everyMPshowfont=\toks28
\MPscratchCnt=\count108
\MPscratchDim=\dimen163
\MPnumerator=\count109
\everyMPtoPDFconversion=\toks29
)
PGFPlots: reading {history.dat}

Runaway definition?
->
! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [main memory size=3000000].
\pgfplotsapplistXXglobalpushback@smallbufoverfl ...
                                                  \the \t@pgfplots@tokb \the...
l.26 ...lot [no marks, thick] table {history.dat};
                                                  
If you really absolutely need more capacity,
you can ask a wizard to enlarge me.

 
Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
 12731 strings out of 495061
 291028 string characters out of 1182621
 3000001 words of memory out of 3000000
 15690 multiletter control sequences out of 15000+50000
 3640 words of font info for 14 fonts, out of 3000000 for 9000
 28 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191
 56i,1n,61p,418b,660s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,50000s
!  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

How can I solve it?

[Johannes_B]

You can enlarge the memory (dependant of your distribution), eternalize the plots (have a look at the manual section 50 -> Externalization) or use LuaLaTeX to compile your document. LuaTeX allocates more memory on the run if needed.