[Paraview] Surface LIC memory usage

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

I doubt it's part of the design so to speak :). My suspicion is some
OpenGL buffers are not being released or something of that nature.
I'll try to track it down.

Utkarsh

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Burlen Loring <bloring at lbl.gov> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am seeing some pretty astounding memory usage when using the LIC. My
> dataset is 100MB image 2D image data. When I load it and display using a
> slice rep. I use about 800MB of RAM, but when I turn on LIC rep. memory
> usage goes up to 18GB!! What's worse is that as I advance through the time
> series with each new step the memory usage grows by 4GB or more, until I run
> out of RAM. I put the output from one run below, memory usage is reported in
> KB.
>
> Does anyone know why LIC rep. requires such a massive amount of RAM? I
> didn't see any outright large leaks, so it must be part of this rep. design?
> And can anything be done to prevent the growth in its usage over time?
>
> Listen on port: 11111
> Waiting for client...
> Waiting for server...
> Client connected.
> [0] vtkSQBOVReader::SetFileName 0.024441
> [0] vtkSQBOVReader::RequestData 0.571345
> 1 775272 <------------------ memory use w/ surface rep.
> 1 775272
> 0 missmarple 15193
> 1 776856
> 1 776856
> 1 779336
> 1 18480044 <------------------ memory use w/ LIC rep.
> [0] vtkSQBOVReader::RequestData 3.05736
> 1 18792084
> [0] vtkSQBOVReader::RequestData 3.1486
> 1 19603868
> [0] vtkSQBOVReader::SetFileName 2.09808e-05
> Client connection closed.
>
>
>
> Burlen
>
>
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