[Paraview] Excessive memory consumption when loading a series of
VTK legacy files
Roman Geus
roman.geus at psi.ch
Wed Oct 31 07:23:15 EDT 2007
Hello all
I am using ParaView 3.2beta in client/server mode with remote rendering
(threshold=0m).
When loading a series of VTK legacy files (*.vtk) as described in
http://paraview.org/Wiki/Animating_legacy_VTK_file_series I'm
experiencing excessive memory consumption on the client side.
Here is a table that shows the memory consumption on the client and the
server depending on the number of timesteps:
time steps client memory server memory
100 38m 140m
200 44m 140m
500 95m 160m
1000 276m 240m
(each VTK file is 2m size)
Clearly the client will eventually run out of memory when the time steps
are further increased.
I don't understand why the client uses so much memory, when all the data
reading and rendering is done on the server.
Can somebody shed some light into this?
Is this a general problem with time steps or is it just with VTK legacy
files?
Thanks and best regards,
Roman
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Roman Geus
Paul Scherrer Institut
AIT
Scientific Computing
5232 Villigen PSI
Switzerland
Tel: +41 56 310 54 85
Fax: +41 56 310 36 49
e-Mail: roman.geus at psi.ch
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