[Paraview] Box clipping is very slow and wasteful!

[Dinu Patirniche]

Hi everybody,

I'm new to this forum, and I am not entirely sure if this is the right
place to post this question, so please direct me to the right corner if
that should be the case.

Ok - to the technical bit now: I am using paraview 4.3.1 to load a 2gb vtk
dataset. One the volume is loaded, I see a memory increase of about 7gb.
Now, as a very first thing, I want to clip the volume, to about a 10th
(with the box option selected from the clip menu). Now, I set up the box
from which I want to extract the volume - but the entire rest of physical
memory (about 5gb) gets eaten up plus another 32gb swap space. By than,
paraview gets killed and I have to start all over again. So why is it that
selecting a small range out of a 7gb volume ends up taking least 37gbs of
memory?

Thanks.
Dinu.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/paraview/attachments/20150706/e531a3ff/attachment.html>