[Paraview] ParaView Memory Usage

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

Do you have a sample dataset you could share (feel free to email me
privately). I at the very least track down what the reader is doing.

Utkarsh

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Hedieh Ebrahimi
<hedieh.ebrahimi at amphos21.com> wrote:
> Hi Utkarsh,
>
> I am opening h5 files using PFlotran HDF5 reader to open my files which are
> result of PFlotran simulation.
>
> ParaView uses more memory when I load a big file with lots of arrays and
> just select one array in reader´s properties panel than when I have manually
> splitted my big file using python and then opening it in the same reader and
> selecting the same array.
>
> Is there anyway to fix this bug? This could make everything much faster.
>
> Thanks in Advance
>
>
>
>
> On 12 August 2013 15:34, Utkarsh Ayachit <utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> What file format was this? Xdmf? You're correct, typically, if a user
>> chooses to load only a certain array from the reader's properties panel,
>> that should be same/simlar to opening a file that does not have any of the
>> other arrays. There may a bug or things specific to the reader that may
>> preclude that.
>>
>> Utkarsh
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Hedieh Ebrahimi
>> <hedieh.ebrahimi at amphos21.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have a question regarding memory efficiency in ParaView.
>>>
>>> Consider that I have a h5 file that contain cellArrays that have
>>> information about pH and lots of other materials over all cells in the
>>> DataSet .
>>>
>>> There are two ways I can use my h5 file in ParaView to visualize Data.
>>> 1.If I  open this file using ParaView and then under the properties
>>> section just click to show pH.
>>>
>>> 2. If I split the h5 file and create a new Dataset just containing  pH
>>> and NOT any other material and then open this file in ParaView.
>>>
>>> It looks like in the first scenario ParaView is using way more memory
>>> than when I split the file and open it in ParaView as a smaller Dataset.
>>> Isn´t ParaView supposed to take care of memory better ? I mean shouldn´t
>>> ParaView work the same way if I open my huge DataSet and try to show just pH
>>> as when I extract pH from my DataSet and open it as a smaller h5 file in
>>> ParaView?
>>>
>>> I would be grateful if somebody could please give some advice.
>>>
>>> Thanks in Advance
>>>
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