[Paraview] Crash on vtr file load

Tue Feb 7 10:50:48 EST 2012

Hi Kyle,

thank you for looking at the file.

I don't know if it is a Windows issue - unfortunately, I don't have the possibility to use a Linux machine here although I would love to... ;)

Do you have the possibility to test the file on a Windoze machine?

What would be your guess why 3.12-RC2 opens the file on my machine, while 3.12 (release) doesn't?

Would you say that Paraview is less stable under Windoze than under Linux?
Would it make sense that I try a development snapshot of Paraview? If so, I would need a binary since I don't have a C++ compiler on my machine...

Thank you,

Matthias

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Kyle Lutz [mailto:kyle.lutz at kitware.com]
Gesendet: Dienstag, 7. Februar 2012 16:42
An: Zenker, Dr. Matthias
Cc: David E DeMarle; paraview at paraview.org
Betreff: Re: [Paraview] Crash on vtr file load

Hi Matthias,

I've downloaded your vtr file and it opened it with my build of paraview (Linux, 64bit, git-master). The file opens and the clip filter works as expected. The memory usage for ParaView is 1-1.5GB so I don't think lack of memory on your machine is an issue.

I also tried it with the 3.12 binaries from paraview.org and everything worked as expected.

Perhaps this is a Windows issue?

Thanks,
Kyle

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 8:19 AM, Zenker, Dr. Matthias <Matthias.Zenker at erbe-med.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> thank you for the answer.
>
> My Machine has 3.46 GB of RAM. I use the 32 bit versions of WIN XP and Paraview. The statistics inspector (in 3.12.0-RC2) says for a 204 MB file:
> 5578650 cells, 5680752 points, 244,104 MB memory, 19,184 MB geometry size.
>
> So it doesn't seem to me that memory is the issue here.
> I will check if I can upload one of the files, as Utkarsh suggested.
>
> Matthias
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: paraview-bounces at paraview.org
> [mailto:paraview-bounces at paraview.org] Im Auftrag von David E DeMarle
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 7. Februar 2012 14:05
> An: Zenker, Dr. Matthias
> Cc: paraview at paraview.org
> Betreff: Re: [Paraview] Crash on vtr file load
>
> The data may just be too large for your machine (especially when Clip produces unstructured grids from your input rectilinear grid data).
>
> Are you using a 32 or 64 bit version of windows XP and how much RAM does your machine have?  What does View->Statistics inspector (or alternatively the information tab) say about the memory size, number of cells and number of arrays in this data set?
>
> If you are exceeding memory, the solution is either to:
> 1) try more memory thrifty filter alternatives such as Slice or Extract Subset rather than Clip (see the Best Practices section of the user guide).
> 2) connect the client to a parallel paraview server and load the data there.
>
>
> David E DeMarle
> Kitware, Inc.
> R&D Engineer
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>
>
> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 7:18 AM, Zenker, Dr. Matthias <Matthias.Zenker at erbe-med.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am rather new to Paraview and have used it so far to view binary
>> vtu files generated by the Elmer FEM software.
>>
>> Now I have received results files generated by SEMCAD. They are in
>> vtr format (ASCII) and rather large. The problem is that Paraview
>> crashes immediately without error message. I use Paraview 3.12.0 on Win XP.
>> When I try it with 3.12.0-RC2, it loads the file, but crashes when I do a "clip"
>> and move the section plane. In my despair, I have tried with Visit,
>> which seems to load the file, but I cannot view any plot (I must say
>> that this was my first attempt to use Visit.
>>
>> Is there anything I can do to handle those files and/or fidn the
>> reason why Paraview crashes? Are there binaries of newer
>> (development) versions of Paraview which I could try, where the vtr reader might be more robust?
>>
>> Thanks for a helpful hint,
>>
>> Matthias
>>
>> P.S.: Unfortunately the vtr files are too large (30 MB to 500 MB) to
>> attach one of them here.
>>
>>
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