[Paraview-developers] Paraview is almost wonderful (not dreadful as I implied previously)

[Will Schroeder]

:-) what whiskey do you drink? I've got some Wild Turkey on my desk, I do
shots with really good news and flaming shots with really bad news (but
don't tell HR).
W

On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Biddiscombe, John A. <biddisco at cscs.ch>wrote:

>  Will****
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> My apologies. I saw it after I clicked send. If you don’t mind I’ll take
> my punishment as a suspended sentence. I feel that I have suffered enough
> already with a week (and weekend) of debugging paraview on 128 cores of the
> cluster. During the day I confine my excesses to top strength coffee - but
> rest assured that I’ll be hitting the whisky when I get home.****
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> JB****
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> *From:* Will Schroeder [mailto:will.schroeder at kitware.com]
> *Sent:* 06 February 2012 18:03
> *To:* Biddiscombe, John A.
> *Cc:* Sebastien Jourdain; paraview-developers at paraview.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Paraview-developers] Paraview is almost wonderful (not
> dreadful as I implied previously)****
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> John-****
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> I want to make sure that you realize whining is spelled "whining" not
> "wining"  as in your email (which I think has to do with excessive
> drinking).  For homework I suggest you write "I will not whine about
> ParaView ever again" 100 times on a local chalkboard :-)****
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> W****
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> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Biddiscombe, John A. <biddisco at cscs.ch>
> wrote:****
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> Sebastien (Also Utkarsh who emailed me off list)
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> I would like to point out that after I patched the realloc problem, (and
> disabled the same call in trilinos, which between you and me was a real
> pain in the bum to find) - which strictly speaking is a libc/kernel problem
> on our linux installations not really a paraview bug - everything has been
> much much better. I was able to load a large dataset and generate an
> animation.
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> in fact another  job just completed on the cluster and I am now viewing
> one timestep from a half a billion particle dataset !!! hoorah. At last.
>
> So despite my constant wining (and trust me, paraview was crashing
> constantly on our cluster), it is now wonderful and I will recommend it to
> all my friends (both of them).
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> Paraview still crashes randomly from time to time, but the frequency is
> very much reduced now, once I have the state set up, I avoid clicking
> anything and am able to generate some animations. Users generally report to
> me that paraview crashes all the time, my own experience is that it crashes
> all the time, and the fact that I have been seriously considering using
> visit instead, tells me something...
>
> My apologies for the slightly over-the-top title of my earlier post.
>
> JB
> PS. Paraview just crashed on me again and I lost all my particles.
> segfault. <sigh>. Back to totalview again.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sebastien Jourdain [mailto:sebastien.jourdain at kitware.com]
> Sent: 06 February 2012 16:50
> To: Biddiscombe, John A.
> Cc: paraview-developers at paraview.org
> Subject: Re: [Paraview-developers] paraview completely unusable (as usual)
>
> Hi John,
>
> thanks for reporting the issue, we'll look into that during the day.
>
> Seb
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> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 6:08 AM, Biddiscombe, John A. <biddisco at cscs.ch>
> wrote:
> > The reason is because of the commit below. It seems like it fails to
> work after N calls on most machines. I fixed this a long time ago on my
> local branches, but forgot to reapply the fix when I switched to the
> standard paraview release branch (and master last week). After tracking
> that down, I found that trilinos also uses the dodgy realloc call and this
> was bringing down my plugins with segfaults at random and hard to reproduce
> times.
> >
> > Can I suggest a CMake option to disable this realloc call.
> >
> > ta
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> > JB
> >
> > commit c869c3d5875f503e757b64f2fd1ec349aee859bf
> > Author: Sebastien Jourdain <sebastien.jourdain at kitware.com>
> > Date:   Mon Jun 28 15:02:21 2010 -0400
> >
> >    ENH: Change the behaviour of DataArray.Resize(newSize)
> >
> >    Now, if the newSize is bigger than the current size, the call of
> > Resize(newSize) will produce an array of that exact newsize and not
> > big
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> > --
> > John Biddiscombe,                            email:biddisco @ cscs.ch
> > http://www.cscs.ch/ CSCS, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre  | Tel:
> > +41 (91) 610.82.07 Via Cantonale, 6928 Manno, Switzerland      | Fax:
> > +41 (91) 610.82.82
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