[Paraview] Paraview hangs in OS X

[Sean McBride]

On Mon, 6 May 2013 12:16:32 -0400, James Thunes said:

>I have been having intermittent problems with paraview since updating to
>v3.98.1. After running the program for awhile, the program will hang for
>10-30 seconds when changing the contour plot variable. This happens fairly
>regularly with both large and small files. I don't believe that it is due
>to low memory, each timestep in my dataset is approx 50 MB and I have
>plenty of available ram.

Do you have Xcode installed?  If so, run Instruments.app to sample Paraview when it's hanging.  Or you could try sysdiagnose (see 'man sysdiagnose').

Cheers,

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