[Paraview] Crash on vtr file load

Fri Feb 10 13:06:43 EST 2012

Matthias,

On that note, why are you using Clip? Clip on rectilinear grid will
cause a memory bloat. If you're making axis aligned sections, you may
want to use Extract Subset instead.

Utkarsh

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Yumin Yuan <yumin.yuan at kitware.com> wrote:
> 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.
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>>>>>>>
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