[Paraview] Data size limit?

[Mattijs Janssens]

Sounds like your mpi has a built-in limit. Is this mpich? Maybe there 
are some mpis without this limitation. We use lam and haven't seen this 
limitation (but have only gone up to 10Mb or so messages sizes)

Christoph Moder wrote:
> 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
> 
> ====================
> 
> $ 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
> 
> ====================
> 
> $ ./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
> 
> ====================
> 
> $ 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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Best regards,

Mattijs

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