[Paraview] memory load on client when running on server

[jean mensa]

When I do that Xorg process on the client drains the memory up until it
crashes. The connection I think is properly established since it works fine
for smaller datasets. What should the load on the client be in that case?
j


On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Burlen Loring <bloring at lbl.gov> wrote:

>  Yes, this is expected. The OpenGL calls get piped to your local system.
> This includes data like vertices and colors as well. X forwarding doesn't
> give good performance and with large data it may not even be feasible.
>
> You need to set up client server connection.
>
> http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Reverse_connection_and_port_forwarding
> http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView:Server_Configuration
> http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Setting_up_a_ParaView_Server
> http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView_And_Mesa_3D
>
>
>
>
> On 06/19/2014 10:33 AM, jean mensa wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I have a rather large unstructured pvtu dataset (about 4 million points)
> which I am visualizing on a remote server. I am running the paraview GUI
> (with the multicore option) on the server and I connect to it via ssh
> sharing the X server. In this way I can control the GUI running on the
> serve. I thought that with this configuration I would only receive a
> screenshot of the window and no actual data from paraview but the client
> seems to share at least some of the load of the visualization. Is this the
> expected behaviour? How can I avoid loading data on the client side?
> Thanks in advance,
>
>  --
> *Jean A. Mensa*
> *Graduate Assistant*
>  University of Miami
>  RSMAS - MPO
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> Miami, FL 33149-1098
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*Jean A. Mensa*
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University of Miami
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