[Paraview] memory allocation problem when saving animation

[Leonie Callies]

Hi,

I am trying to save an animation with a large amount of data. It is vtk binary data in 2D and 3D and I add some common filters to it such as Calculators, Extract Cells by Region, warp by scalar and a contour. Every time I try to save the animation it crashes after about a third or maybe half of the time steps because of a memory allocation problem. I am using ParaView 3.10.1 on a Linux CentOS 64bit system.
I found a bug report (ID 0011982) concerning a memory leak in 3.10.0 but it is supposed to be fixed in 3.10.1
Has anyone else experienced this problem? Or is there an easy solution to the problem? This doesn't seem to be a problem in 3.8.1. But because of another bug in that earlier version I can't use 3.8.1.
Any help is greatly appreciated.

Leonie

[Ivo Roghair]

I also encountered this behaviour, the memory just fills up until
there is nothing available anymore, then it crashes. On the
mailinglist I could find a message about the same issue for 3.10.0. It
was then suggested that in settings>animation the geometry caching
should be turned off, but I didn't try that yet.

Best
Ivo

Post by Leonie Callies
Hi,
I am trying to save an animation with a large amount of data. It is vtk binary data in 2D and 3D and I add some common filters to it such as Calculators, Extract Cells by Region, warp by scalar and a contour. Every time I try to save the animation it crashes after about a third or maybe half of the time steps because of a memory allocation problem. I am using ParaView 3.10.1 on a Linux CentOS 64bit system.
I found a bug report (ID 0011982) concerning a memory leak in 3.10.0 but it is supposed to be fixed in 3.10.1
Has anyone else experienced this problem? Or is there an easy solution to the problem? This doesn't seem to be a problem in 3.8.1. But because of another bug in that earlier version I can't use 3.8.1.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Leonie
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[Ivo Roghair]

It seems that if you compile the latest source (I used
3.12.0-RC1-92-g35250ec 64-bit) and turn off geometry caching, it works
without problems.

I verified that the problem also occurs in 3.10.1 with geometry
caching turned off. It's not only with time series data, because if I
load a single file and make the camera orbit it, saving the animation
will still make it crash. I can see that the memory is leaking; if I
quit during the animation rendering (say somewhere halfway) and delete
the entire pipeline, the memory consumed by ParaView is still about
3GB, hence it doesn't really free it.

Post by Ivo Roghair
I also encountered this behaviour, the memory just fills up until
there is nothing available anymore, then it crashes. On the
mailinglist I could find a message about the same issue for 3.10.0. It
was then suggested that in settings>animation the geometry caching
should be turned off, but I didn't try that yet.
Best
Ivo

Post by Leonie Callies
Hi,
I am trying to save an animation with a large amount of data. It is vtk binary data in 2D and 3D and I add some common filters to it such as Calculators, Extract Cells by Region, warp by scalar and a contour. Every time I try to save the animation it crashes after about a third or maybe half of the time steps because of a memory allocation problem. I am using ParaView 3.10.1 on a Linux CentOS 64bit system.
I found a bug report (ID 0011982) concerning a memory leak in 3.10.0 but it is supposed to be fixed in 3.10.1
Has anyone else experienced this problem? Or is there an easy solution to the problem? This doesn't seem to be a problem in 3.8.1. But because of another bug in that earlier version I can't use 3.8.1.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Leonie
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[Leonie Callies]

Thanks. I tried using the latest version but unfortunately it didn't work. Just opening Paraview already consumed more and more memory although we didn't load any data. But we might have done something wrong compiling the code.
It seems like 3.4.0 doesn't have this memory leakage. But the camera motion is still very basic in that version.

Leonie



-------- Original-Nachricht --------

Datum: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 16:12:15 +0200
Von: Ivo Roghair <ivoroghair at gmail.com>
An: Leonie Callies <Leonie.Callies at gmx.de>
CC: paraview at paraview.org
Betreff: Re: [Paraview] memory allocation problem when saving animation
It seems that if you compile the latest source (I used
3.12.0-RC1-92-g35250ec 64-bit) and turn off geometry caching, it works
without problems.
I verified that the problem also occurs in 3.10.1 with geometry
caching turned off. It's not only with time series data, because if I
load a single file and make the camera orbit it, saving the animation
will still make it crash. I can see that the memory is leaking; if I
quit during the animation rendering (say somewhere halfway) and delete
the entire pipeline, the memory consumed by ParaView is still about
3GB, hence it doesn't really free it.

Post by Ivo Roghair
I also encountered this behaviour, the memory just fills up until
there is nothing available anymore, then it crashes. On the
mailinglist I could find a message about the same issue for 3.10.0. It
was then suggested that in settings>animation the geometry caching
should be turned off, but I didn't try that yet.
Best
Ivo

Post by Leonie Callies
Hi,
I am trying to save an animation with a large amount of data. It is vtk

binary data in 2D and 3D and I add some common filters to it such as
Calculators, Extract Cells by Region, warp by scalar and a contour. Every time I
try to save the animation it crashes after about a third or maybe half of
the time steps because of a memory allocation problem. I am using ParaView
3.10.1 on a Linux CentOS 64bit system.

Post by Ivo Roghair

Post by Leonie Callies
I found a bug report (ID 0011982) concerning a memory leak in 3.10.0

but it is supposed to be fixed in 3.10.1

Post by Ivo Roghair

Post by Leonie Callies
Has anyone else experienced this problem? Or is there an easy solution

to the problem? This doesn't seem to be a problem in 3.8.1. But because of
another bug in that earlier version I can't use 3.8.1.

Post by Ivo Roghair

Post by Leonie Callies
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Leonie
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