[Paraview] Python Scripts and memory

[Dr. Olaf Ippisch]

Dear Berk,

thank you for the fast response and for pointing me to the right point
in the a bit scattered Paraview Python documentation. You do not
possibly also have a clue how to get the size of the text field right?

Best regards,
Olaf

Am 26.03.13 13:33, schrieb Berk Geveci:
> Hi Olaf,
> 
> Given that there is no memory management in your code, it is not
> surprising that it leaks :-) One option is to use Delete() to get rid of
> objects after using them. There is a short section talking about it
> here: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Python_Scripting
> 
> The even better approach would be to create the pipeline and all the
> views only once and then simply update the filename in the loop. That
> would guarantee that all resources from a previous timestep are released
> when the  next one executes. 
> 
> Best,
> -berk
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Dr. Olaf Ippisch
> <olaf.ippisch at iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
> <mailto:olaf.ippisch at iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>> wrote:
> 
>     Dear Paraview developers and users,
> 
>     I have some problems when using the python interface to paraview. I
>     attached a small program I wrote to visualize data from several time
>     steps of a simulation. Two things are unclear to me:
> 
>     - The program contains a loop over several files to be read from disk
>     and visualized. However, if I start the program, the memory consumption
>     of the python interpreter is growing steadily with each iteration. It
>     seems that the memory allocated for python objects storing data and
>     results is never freed again. Is there some command to tell the
>     interpreter to release the vtk/paraview data structures?
>     - In line 9 I create a text label. I can set its content and also
>     manipulate its position. However, I was not able to change the size of
>     the text field. For large numbers the text is just cut. I tried to play
>     with props.Position2, but I did not have any success. What is the trick?
> 
>     Best regards,
>     Olaf Ippisch
> 
> 
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Dr. Olaf Ippisch
Universität Heidelberg
Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen
Im Neuenheimer Feld 368, Raum 4.24
Tel: 06221/548252   Fax: 06221/548884
Mail: Im Neuenheimer Feld 368, 69120 Heidelberg
e-mail: <olaf.ippisch at iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>