<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Trying to allocate that many elements at 8 bytes each takes 1,474,563,760 bytes or 1.4 GB. If ParaView was compiled for 32 bit then you may have reached its limit. I know on my own OS X machine with when ParaView gets much above 1GB of used RAM I should start praying.. <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I don't pretend to know anything about memory management under any of the Operating Systems. In my naive world, even in 32 bit mode there should be at minimum about 2GB of Memory available, or 4GB if the memory pointer that is used is and unsigned 32 bit integer. That is in my own little world where I understand things. In the real world it doesn't work that way. Maybe someone can explain it to us.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Cheers<BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Bitstream Vera Sans; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-- </DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Mike Jackson Senior Research Engineer</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Innovative Management & Technology Services</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 22, 2007, at 12:31 PM, Bikash Agarwal wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">Hi All,<BR><BR>I added the vtkTIFFReader class to paraview and tried to open tiff files. It worked fine for smaller files of arnd 5-6mb but when i tried opening a .tif file of size 65mb, paraview crashed with the errror below: <BR><BR>ErrorMessage<BR># Error or warning: There was a VTK Error in file: /root/Project/ParaView-2.6-Source/VTK/Common/vtkDataArrayTemplate.txx (266)<BR> vtkIdTypeArray (0xd83f980): Unable to allocate 184320470 elements of size 8 bytes. <BR>ErrorMessage end<BR><BR>I read jack's post about being unable to open large elevation files. What might be the issue here? I'm running Paraview 2.6 on a fedora core 6 machine with 3GB ram.<BR><BR>thanks,<BR><BR> Bikash Agarwal<BR>Virtual Reality Group<BR>MIRARCO<BR><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">ParaView mailing list</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:ParaView@paraview.org">ParaView@paraview.org</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview">http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>