[Paraview] Paraview crashes regularly during animation/rendering

[Berk Geveci]

On the Mac, you can also use Instruments, a fantastic tool. As Utkarsh
and Burlen mentioned, running out of memory is a common problem.

Do you get any output to the terminal on Linux (when you start from
the terminal)? Anything about exceptions?

-berk

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:54 PM, burlen <burlen.loring at gmail.com> wrote:
> You may want to watch PV's memory consumption as the animations progress.
> You said "large" and "single workstation", there is a chance that some
> operation is taking more memory than you thought it would causing PV to be
> killed. PV consuming anything over 80% in my experience is skating on thin
> ice. In case you're not familiar with it, the command line tool "top" will
> help monitor the situation.
>
> Dan Lussier wrote:
>>
>> Hello.
>>
>> I am running into a problem with Paraview when running animation on large
>> (many million nodes/points) data sets.
>>
>> When I animate and/or save images of each frame from large data sets
>> Paraview will perform well for some (but usually variable) length of time
>> and then crash.
>>
>> I have had the same problem on Mac OS X and Linux and have been running on
>> single workstations in all cases.
>>
>> I am not a super experienced Paraview user so am having some trouble
>> getting information out of Paraview to diagnose the problem.  Any
>> suggestions on how to proceed, or on specific system information or crash
>> reports that I can get from Paraview would be great.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> Dan Lussier
>> University of Oxford
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