[Paraview] Out of memory when exporting animations

[Goodwin Lawlor]

Hi Utkarsh,

The animation script is using LegacyVTKReader to read in a series of vtk 
files and a STLReader to read in a single stl file.

I'll see if I can get a script together to demo the problem.

Goodwin

On 05/12/2011 19:19, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
> STL has been used pre-3.8, the best that I can remember. What reader
> are you using Goodwin? We know Thomas is using the PVD reader. I'm
> wondering is it's reader specific. Let's try to track this one down.
> Any specific steps that I should do to reproduce the problem on my
> end?
>
> Utkarsh
>
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Goodwin Lawlor<goodwin.lawlor at ucd.ie>  wrote:
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> We've been hitting this same problem and trying to fix this since last week.
>>
>> We're creating an animation with pvbatch rather than pvserver.
>>
>> The only success we've had is with ParaView-3.8.
>>
>> 3.10 and 3.12 both have the behaviour you describe below.
>>
>> We've also tried building PV with Mesa3d 6.5.2, 7.10.3 and 7.11.2 and
>> without MPI.
>>
>> Here's a link to a valgrid/vtk_debug_leaks output of a cut down animation
>> that doesn't run of memory (but does grow steadily):
>>
>> http://pastebin.com/j1crtJp0
>>
>> Plenty of squawks... the only thing I can see that would account for the
>> amount of memory leaking is the 3.6GB memory "still reachable".
>>
>> This could be due to C++ STL memory pooling - was STL added after 3.8?
>>
>> Goodwin
>>
>>
>> On 05/12/2011 15:14, Thomas Witkowski wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I want to export an animation of a pvd file to a stack of png files. I
>>> use ParaView 3.10.0 and remote rendering, thus, I start the pvserver on
>>> a remote machine. When exporting the animation, or even when I step
>>> through the data using the time line, the X-Server on the remote machine
>>> run outs of memory. It seems that when going from one timestep to
>>> another one the data from the old timestep is not freed. What's wrong? I
>>> alread disabled "cache geometry" on the local client.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any advise,
>>>
>>> Thomas
>>
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