[Paraview] pvserver running out of memory

[Jeff Becker]

On 02/25/2015 12:01 PM, Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
> Odd...are you running a parallel server or a single processes
> pvserver? What is the remote rendering threshold set to i.e. are you
> doing remote rendering or local rendering (see [1] is you're unsure
> how to determine that)?.

Here's my command on the server: (I want a baseline for a multi-server 
parallel back-end)

$ mpirun -np 1 /usr/bin/env DISPLAY=pfe20:31.0 ./mylocal/bin/pvserver 
--client-host=pfe20 --use-offscreen-rendering

I didn't touch the default remote rendering setting in the client.
>
>
> [1] http://www.kitware.com/blog/home/post/686
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 2:01 PM, Jeff Becker <jeffrey.c.becker at nasa.gov> wrote:
>> Hi. I am trying to run ParaView 4.3.1 in client/server mode. After the
>> client connects, I try to open a SILO data file (I built paraview with the
>> SILO reader option). Then, I can see pvserver growing in memory use to 91%
>> (of 48G!) using top. At that point the job scheduler kills my job. Anyone
>> know what might be causing this memory consumption?
>>
>> BTW, if I try to open the same SILO file with ParaView 4.3.1 running
>> standalone on my desktop, it works fine.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -jeff
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