[Paraview] Python Scripts and memory

[Berk Geveci]

> You do not possibly also have a clue how to get the size of the text
field right?

Sorry. I don't have an answer for this. Not sure that I understand the
question even :-) Hopefully, someone else that is more knowledgeable in
this will answer.


On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Dr. Olaf Ippisch <
olaf.ippisch at iwr.uni-heidelberg.de> wrote:

> 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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