[Paraview] Segmentation fault

[SamuelKey]

Christophe--

I am not an expert on ParaView internals, but I have had similar 
troubles, particularly, on MS Windows O/S. (I have also had similar 
troubles on Linux.)  When your memory footprint exceeds 2GB, Windows 
will kill your job. Linux is likely more graceful and precludes memory 
requests when they go beyond a certain limit.

My work around is to only load the cell and nodal data that is essential 
for the display I want to animate, keep the number of isosurfaces to a 
minimum, and limit the complexity of the display. I know this is hard to 
do given what ParaView offers.

My data set for which this technique works is 850,000 tetrahedrons and a 
101 time steps in an EnSight binary-formatted file-set.

--Sam Key


Christophe Peyret wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Does any one have an idea to avoid this problem. I am trying to make 
> an animation with paraview. Paraview is working fine until frame 60 
> (sometime it is 50 or 70) then it crashes and write this message :
>
> paraview-real(14545) malloc: *** vm_allocate(size=526909440) failed 
> (error code=3)
> paraview-real(14545) malloc: *** error: can't allocate region
> paraview-real(14545) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in szone_error to debug
> ErrorMessage
> # Error or warning: There was a VTK Error in file: 
> /Users/berk/ParaViewReleaseRoot/ParaView-2.6.0/VTK/Common/vtkDataArrayTemplate.txx 
> (266)
> vtkIdTypeArray (0x59104570): Unable to allocate 131727355 elements of 
> size 4 bytes.
> ErrorMessage end
> paraview-real(14545) malloc: *** vm_allocate(size=526909440) failed 
> (error code=3)
> paraview-real(14545) malloc: *** error: can't allocate region
> paraview-real(14545) malloc: *** set a breakpoint in szone_error to debug
> ErrorMessage
> # Error or warning: There was a VTK Error in file: 
> /Users/berk/ParaViewReleaseRoot/ParaView-2.6.0/VTK/Common/vtkDataArrayTemplate.txx 
> (266)
> vtkIdTypeArray (0x59104570): Unable to allocate 131727360 elements of 
> size 4 bytes.
> ErrorMessage end
> Segmentation fault
>
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