[Paraview] buggy xdmfreader

[Pratik Mallya]

I am trying to read a huge hdf file (~2GB) using xdmf. However, the 
xdmfreader of paraview is showing this error:

ERROR: In 
/home/pratik/Manually_Installed_Softwares/numerical/ParaView/ParaView-3.10.0/Utilities/Xdmf2/vtk/vtkXdmfReader.cxx, 
line 394

vtkXdmfReader (0xaef39b0): Failed to read data.

ERROR: In 
/home/pratik/Manually_Installed_Softwares/numerical/ParaView/ParaView-3.10.0/VTK/Filtering/vtkExecutive.cxx, 
line 756

vtkPVCompositeDataPipeline (0xade0188): Algorithm 
vtkXdmfReader(0xaef39b0) returned failure for request: vtkInformation 
(0xb05eaa8)

Debug: Off

Modified Time: 4157222

Reference Count: 1

Registered Events: (none)

Request: REQUEST_DATA

FROM_OUTPUT_PORT: 0

FORWARD_DIRECTION: 0

ALGORITHM_AFTER_FORWARD: 1


..many times.
To figure out what was wrong, i reduced the xdmf so that it only reads 
the geometry (i.e XY grid), and even after using under *identical 
conditions *the same error persists. The only reason to explain this is 
the size of the h5 files being read: one of them contains only  XY mesh 
point coordinates whereas the other one contains a lot of extra data 
that I am trying to visualize.

Has anyone faced a similar problem? Can you please suggest which part of 
the Xdmf reader may be causing this problem?
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*Pratik Mallya*
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