[Paraview] Unreclaimed memory in coprocessing? (PV 3.12.0 and git-master)

[Andy Bauer]

Hi,

I'm trying to replicate it and with my scripts I'm getting the attached
memory usage.  I'm not seeing it though I may not be measuring memory very
well or letting it play out long enough.  I'll keep looking but it's
possible that you're not deleting your created data object that is getting
passed into the coprocessing library.  That would be my first
recommendation to check.  You may want to turn on debug leaks if you
haven't in your paraview build.

By the way, I generated that graph with the attached scripts.

Andy

2012/1/10 Takuya OSHIMA <oshima at eng.niigata-u.ac.jp>

> Hi John,
>
> What I observed on a Mac and a Linux box with 8 processor parallel
> runs (around 400MB per process) were quite similar to your memory
> profiling but with a bit larger growth rate of 1-2% and 2-3% per
> coprocessing execution respectively (somehow it was bigger on Linux).
> I'll see if I can do similar profiling.
>
> Takuya OSHIMA, Ph.D.
> Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University
> 8050 Ikarashi-Ninocho, Nishi-ku, Niigata, 950-2181, JAPAN
>
> From: "Biddiscombe, John A." <biddisco at cscs.ch>
> Subject: RE: [Paraview] Unreclaimed memory in coprocessing? (PV 3.12.0 and
> git-master)
> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:51:41 +0000
>
> > Takuya
> >
> > Running a test of coprocessing on a very small simulation using just 2
> cores
> > on the desktop, I am seeing what looks like a very small leak. Over
> about 30
> > iterations, it’s of the order of 30MB, so might not be real (need to
> test on a
> > bigger domain to see if it grows faster), but the trend looks credible.
> I’ll
> > see if I can pinpoint where the loss is occurring.
> >
> > JB
> >
> > [cid]
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: paraview-bounces at paraview.org [mailto:
> paraview-bounces at paraview.org] On
> > Behalf Of Takuya OSHIMA
> > Sent: 10 January 2012 15:11
> > To: paraview at paraview.org
> > Subject: Re: [Paraview] Unreclaimed memory in coprocessing? (PV 3.12.0
> and
> > git-master)
> >
> > Attached in the previous mail is a sample Python coprocessing script that
> > exhibits the problem (written by the coprocessing script generator of
> > git-master as of today).
> >
> > Takuya
> >
> > Takuya OSHIMA, Ph.D.
> >
> > Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University
> >
> > 8050 Ikarashi-Ninocho, Nishi-ku, Niigata, 950-2181, JAPAN
> >
> > From: Takuya OSHIMA <oshima at eng.niigata-u.ac.jp>
> >
> > Subject: Unreclaimed memory in coprocessing? (PV 3.12.0 and git-master)
> >
> > Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:08:21 +0900 (JST)
> >
> > > Hi,
> >
> > >
> >
> > > I am having a problem where the memory usage of my simulation program
> >
> > > which links with the PV coprocessing library grows until it gets
> >
> > > killed by the operating system.
> >
> > >
> >
> > > I have the following piece of code for triggering coprocessing and if
> >
> > > I watch the memory usage with the ps/top commands it grows only at the
> >
> > > timestep where this->Processor->CoProcess() is called. My simulation
> >
> > > program uses vtkImageData as underlying data structure so no data
> >
> > > format adaptation (that may involve allocating extra memory for data
> >
> > > copy) is performed.
> >
> > >
> >
> > >   this->DataDescription->SetTimeData(this->TimeInfo->GetTimeValue(),
> >
> > >       this->TimeInfo->GetTIter());
> >
> > >   if (this->Processor->RequestDataDescription(this->DataDescription))
> >
> > >     {
> >
> > >     vtkCPInputDataDescription *idd
> >
> > >         = this->DataDescription->GetInputDescriptionByName("input");
> >
> > >     // obtain vtkImageData to coprocess from my simulation program
> >
> > >     vtkImageData *grid = this->TimeInfo->GetGrid();
> >
> > >     idd->SetWholeExtent(grid->GetWholeExtent());
> >
> > >     idd->SetGrid(grid);
> >
> > >     // now call the coprocessing library
> >
> > >     this->Processor->CoProcess(this->DataDescription);
> >
> > >     }
> >
> > >
> >
> > > Besides, the Apple's "leaks" tool shows no meaningful leaks which
> >
> > > makes me wonder if e.g. there are un-unregistered proxies than simply
> >
> > > unmatched New()/Delete() or new/delete pairs.
> >
> > >
> >
> > > The problem is same for PV 3.12.0 and the git master as of today.
> >
> > > Is anybody else having the problem? Any ideas?
> >
> > >
> >
> > > Thanks,
> >
> > > Takuya
> >
> > >
> >
> > > Takuya OSHIMA, Ph.D.
> >
> > > Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University
> >
> > > 8050 Ikarashi-Ninocho, Nishi-ku, Niigata, 950-2181, JAPAN
> >
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