[Paraview] pvserver running out of memory

[Jeff Becker]

On 02/25/2015 01:47 PM, Jeff Becker wrote:
> 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.

The threshold is zero. I was able to remote render the disk_out_ref.ex2 
tutorial example just fine. Perhaps there's some issue with the SILO 
reader used in pvserver? Thanks.

-jeff
>>
>>
>> [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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