[Paraview] pvpython eating all my memory

[Peter Brady]

Hi Berk,

That fixed my problem.  Thanks for looking into it.

Peter.

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Berk Geveci<berk.geveci at kitware.com> wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> First of all, I apologize for taking so long looking into this.
>
> I think I know what the problem is. In prog_filter.py, you are doing
> the following:
>
> outputBlock = inputBlock.NewInstance()
>
> Due to some issues in VTK's reference counting and the way it
> interacts with Python, this causes a memory leak and outputBlock is
> never released. Try this:
>
> outputBlock = inputBlock.NewInstance()
> outputBlock.UnRegister(None)
>
> instead. I bet you this will fix the memory problem. I will
> investigate how we can solve this problem in VTK in the future.
>
> -berk
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Peter Brady<petertbrady at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I have some reasonable sized data sets (256x256x512) that I'm using
>> paraview to do some postprocessing on via a python script.  However,
>> for some reason, as time progresses and it slogs through more
>> timesteps the memory usage slowly creeps up until my workstation
>> crashes (seems to take about 200-300 timesteps before it eats up all
>> my memory).  I haven't encountered this problem before but this is the
>> largest data set I've processed thus far.  My data format is ensight
>> gold.  The script I'm using is below:
>>
>> ...
>