[Paraview] Animation crashes

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

ParaView animation can be very memory hungry when used with Caching.
When caching is enabled, it caches (in memeory) the geometry for every
frame rendered.

*  Try turning caching off.

Utkarsh

Mary Muir wrote:
> I have been trying to use paraview to animate 3d Resistivity models.
> 
> Loading a rectilinear grid (vtk datafile version 2.0), then using threshold
> to view at various threshold levels. The setting of keyframes after either
> rotating the data or changing the threshold values work. The problem comes,
> when I try to do the following:
> 1) change the number of frames from 10 to anywhere between 40 and 100.
> 2) trying to save the animation in the jpeg, avi or mpeg2 format.
> 
> Sometimes the first will work but not always. I have rarely managed to
> produce an animation file.  It will use lots of memory and then crash. The
> machine is 2.61 Ghz Athlon 64 Fx-55 with 3.25 GB of Ram.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Mary Muir
> 
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