[Paraview] Data size limit?

[Christoph Moder]

Hello!

I would like to use Paraview with big data files which contain 
unstructured grids with 10 million grid points. But Paraview always 
crashes, with different error messages. Is there any size limit? The 
size of the data file (binary vtk) is only 800 MB, this should not be a 
problem (PC: 2 GB RAM + 4 GM swap space). Also parallel processing does 
not help. Below are some error messages. Any comments?

Thanks,
Christoph

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$ mpirun -machinefile ~/machinefile.txt -np 2 ./paraview
p1_27474:  p4_error: alloc_p4_msg: Message size exceeds P4s maximum 
message size: 321213977
rm_l_1_27475: (257.175131) net_send: could not write to fd=5, errno = 32

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$ ./paraview
ErrorMessage
# Error or warning: There was a VTK Error in file: 
/home/moder/paraview-3D/paraview-2.4.2-clone2/GUI/Client/vtkPVApplication.cxx 
(1732)
  vtkPVApplication (0xb65d8b8): TclTk error: Point scalarUncaught 
exception: St9bad_alloc
  Point scalarUncaught exception: St9bad_alloc

     while executing
"vtkTemp92 DrawSurface"
     invoked from within
".paraview.24.33.34.176.177.200.201.203.208.214.215.216.frame.483.485.487.494.495 
invoke active"
     ("uplevel" body line 1)
     invoked from within
"uplevel #0 [list $w invoke active]"
     (procedure "tk::MenuInvoke" line 47)
     invoked from within
"tk::MenuInvoke 
.paraview.24.33.34.176.177.200.201.203.208.214.215.216.frame.483.485.487.494.495 
1"
     (command bound to event)
ErrorMessage end

ErrorMessage
# Error or warning: There was a VTK Error in file: 
/home/moder/paraview-3D/paraview-2.4.2-clone2/VTK/Common/vtkDataArrayTemplate.txx 
(241)
  vtkIdTypeArray (0xac862e20): Unable to allocate 146800640 elements of 
size 8: St9bad_alloc
ErrorMessage end
p0_22811:  p4_error: interrupt SIGSEGV: 11

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$ mpirun -machinefile ~/machinefile.txt -np 2 ./paraview
Process id: 1 >> ERROR: In 
/home/moder/paraview-3D/paraview-2.4.2-clone2/VTK/Rendering/vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow.cxx, 
line 1319
vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0xb576c78): bad X server connection.


p1_22329:  p4_error: interrupt SIGSEGV: 11
rm_l_1_22330: (1360.557878) net_send: could not write to fd=5, errno = 32

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