[Paraview] memory allocation problem when saving animation

[Ivo Roghair]

It seems that if you compile the latest source (I used
3.12.0-RC1-92-g35250ec 64-bit) and turn off geometry caching, it works
without problems.

I verified that the problem also occurs in 3.10.1 with geometry
caching turned off. It's not only with time series data, because if I
load a single file and make the camera orbit it, saving the animation
will still make it crash. I can see that the memory is leaking; if I
quit during the animation rendering (say somewhere halfway) and delete
the entire pipeline, the memory consumed by ParaView is still about
3GB, hence it doesn't really free it.

2011/9/17 Ivo Roghair <ivoroghair at gmail.com>:
> I also encountered this behaviour, the memory just fills up until
> there is nothing available anymore, then it crashes. On the
> mailinglist I could find a message about the same issue for 3.10.0. It
> was then suggested that in settings>animation the geometry caching
> should be turned off, but I didn't try that yet.
>
> Best
> Ivo
>
> 2011/9/12 Leonie Callies <Leonie.Callies at gmx.de>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to save an animation with a large amount of data. It is vtk binary data in 2D and 3D and I add some common filters to it such as Calculators, Extract Cells by Region, warp by scalar and a contour. Every time I try to save the animation it crashes after about a third or maybe half of the time steps because of a memory allocation problem. I am using ParaView 3.10.1 on a Linux CentOS 64bit system.
>> I found a bug report (ID 0011982) concerning a memory leak in 3.10.0 but it is supposed to be fixed in 3.10.1
>> Has anyone else experienced this problem? Or is there an easy solution to the problem? This doesn't seem to be a problem in 3.8.1. But because of another bug in that earlier version I can't use 3.8.1.
>> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Leonie
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