[Paraview] Out of memory when exporting animations

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Thanks Goodwin. That'd be great. I'll wait to hear from you before I
start debugging this.

Utkarsh

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Goodwin Lawlor <goodwin.lawlor at ucd.ie> wrote:
> 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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