[Paraview] Crash on vtr file load

Fri Feb 10 12:12:43 EST 2012

So this is an out-of-memory issue after all.

It crashes at this place:

vtkFastGeomQuad* vtkDataSetSurfaceFilter::NewFastGeomQuad(int numPts)
{
...
  // Next: allocate a new array if necessary.
  if (this->FastGeomQuadArrays[this->NextArrayIndex] == NULL)
    {
    this->FastGeomQuadArrays[this->NextArrayIndex]
    = new unsigned char[this->FastGeomQuadArrayLength];
    }
...
}

Basically, the "new unsigned char[]" failed. We or someone else
familiar with this filter could improve its memory usage later, but
for this release, I don't think we will have a fix for it.

Yumin

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Yumin Yuan <yumin.yuan at kitware.com> wrote:
> I believe I reproduced the crash on my 64 bit XP machine with 8G RAM.
> Looking into it right now.
>
> Yumin
>
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:46 AM, David E DeMarle
> <dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
>> Yes I know that Utkarsh.
>>
>> I still would like Dr Zenker to reconfirm so that we can reproduce,
>> isolate and fix the issue.
>>
>> Please do your comparison runs on 3.12.rc2 and 3.12.0. The change
>> delta between them is smaller than to 3.14.rc2 which should help to
>> isolate the specific cause.
>>
>> David E DeMarle
>> Kitware, Inc.
>> R&D Engineer
>> 21 Corporate Drive
>> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>> Phone: 518-881-4909
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Utkarsh Ayachit
>> <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com> wrote:
>>> Dave,
>>>
>>> We know Matthias previous emails that he had the same crash on clip on 3.12.
>>>
>>> Utkarsh
>>>
>>> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:45 AM, David E DeMarle
>>> <dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
>>>> Also what if any plugins do you have loaded, for both versions.
>>>>
>>>> David E DeMarle
>>>> Kitware, Inc.
>>>> R&D Engineer
>>>> 21 Corporate Drive
>>>> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>>>> Phone: 518-881-4909
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 8:36 AM, David E DeMarle
>>>> <dave.demarle at kitware.com> wrote:
>>>>> Can you confirm for us that the same operation on the same machine
>>>>> with the same data did work on 3.12RC2?
>>>>>
>>>>> David E DeMarle
>>>>> Kitware, Inc.
>>>>> R&D Engineer
>>>>> 21 Corporate Drive
>>>>> Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
>>>>> Phone: 518-881-4909
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Zenker, Dr. Matthias
>>>>> <Matthias.Zenker at erbe-med.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Hi Kyle,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have downloaded and tested the new release candidate with the file I sent you. It loads OK, but crashes after a certain action with the clip filter. I get a crash when I do the following:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1. Open the file, read as "Legacy vtk file"
>>>>>> 2. Apply
>>>>>> 3. Display -> Style -> Surface, Color by -> Value_of_SAR[mW/g]_0s
>>>>>> 4. Clip, Properties->Z Normal, Apply
>>>>>> 5. rotate around y axis to see the cut plane
>>>>>> 6. move the plane with the mouse towards the observer, i.e. in negative z direction
>>>>>> 7. Apply => crash
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Since this is a release candidate, there are chances that this can be fixed for the release... ;)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Matthias
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>>>>> Von: Kyle Lutz [mailto:kyle.lutz at kitware.com]
>>>>>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 7. Februar 2012 19:05
>>>>>> An: Zenker, Dr. Matthias
>>>>>> Cc: John Drescher; paraview at paraview.org
>>>>>> Betreff: Re: [Paraview] Crash on vtr file load
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've tried and was able to reproduce the crash on WinXP-32bit with ParaView-3.12. I then compiled ParaView from git-master (SHA: 818a8e9) and the file could be opened succesfully. Could you try compiling ParaView from the git? If not, ParaView 3.14 should be released this month and should work.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> Kyle
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Zenker, Dr. Matthias <Matthias.Zenker at erbe-med.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> Maybe - but why doesn't 3.12-RC2 crash at file load?
>>>>>>> With 3.12-RC2, I can open a 204 MB file (the file I have uploaded has 29 MB). Paraview will only crash when I start to play around with the clip filter, it then takes some 0.9 GB of memory. With the 29 MB file and one clip filter, I see 424 MB of memory usage in the task manager. When I move the clip plane, the memory usage grows to some 0.8 GB, and Paraview crashes.
>>>>>>> But 3.12.0 will crash immediately when I try to load any of the vtr files.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So IMHO memory is at least not the only issue here.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Matthias
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
>>>>>>> Von: John Drescher [mailto:drescherjm at gmail.com]
>>>>>>> Gesendet: Dienstag, 7. Februar 2012 16:53
>>>>>>> An: Kyle Lutz
>>>>>>> Cc: Zenker, Dr. Matthias; paraview at paraview.org
>>>>>>> Betreff: Re: [Paraview] Crash on vtr file load
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> 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?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 1-1.5GB is enough to get an out of memory on 32 bit windows if the memory is for the image needs to be allocated in a single buffer. This is a result of address space fragmentation and the default 2GB maximum address space limit per process.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> John
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> _____________________________________________________________________
>>>>>>> ERBE Elektromedizin GmbH
>>>>>>> Firmensitz: 72072 Tuebingen
>>>>>>> Geschaeftsfuehrer: Christian O. Erbe, Reiner Thede
>>>>>>> Registergericht: Stuttgart HRB 380137
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> _____________________________________________________________________
>>>>>> ERBE Elektromedizin GmbH
>>>>>> Firmensitz: 72072 Tuebingen
>>>>>> Geschaeftsfuehrer: Christian O. Erbe, Reiner Thede
>>>>>> Registergericht: Stuttgart HRB 380137
>>>>>>
>>>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>>> Powered by www.kitware.com
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:
>>>>>> http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>> Powered by www.kitware.com
>>>>
>>>> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html
>>>>
>>>> Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView
>>>>
>>>> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:
>>>> http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
>> _______________________________________________
>> Powered by www.kitware.com
>>
>> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html
>>
>> Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView
>>
>> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:
>> http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview