<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-3243893516087906742WordSection1"><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li class="m_-3243893516087906742MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">Run View/ Memory Inspector. As you do stuff, watch memory grow. Does it look like memory is growing until PV dies? <b><font color="#ff0000">Starting with 53.6% of RAM free, no swapping.</font></b></li></ul></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-3243893516087906742WordSection1"><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li class="m_-3243893516087906742MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">Minimize the size of your dataset. Although you only have a million cells (rounding), how many variables to you have? Don’t load (or don’t create) variables that you don’t need. <b><font color="#ff0000">410175 cells, and loading 'p' and 'U' only</font></b></li></ul></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-3243893516087906742WordSection1"><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li class="m_-3243893516087906742MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">How many blocks do you have? If the answer is lots (hundreds?), I believe this creates memory pressure. <b><font color="#ff0000">blocks? I guess the answer is: just one block. I reconstruct latestTime after simulation</font></b> </li></ul></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-3243893516087906742WordSection1"><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li class="m_-3243893516087906742MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">Do you have sidesets/ edgesets? Don’t load these unless needed (as you can see, I don’t know openfoam). <b><font color="#ff0000">No sets loaded</font></b></li></ul></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-3243893516087906742WordSection1"><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li class="m_-3243893516087906742MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">Run top. How big is ParaView getting? <span style="background-color:rgb(243,243,243)"><font color="#ff0000"><b style="">Starts with 3.8%. Then it goes up to 10.4% when loading the *.OpenFOAM file (statistics information says 82MB) And, system monitor says PV is using 448.4MB. </b><b style="">When I create a clip, the memory used by PV, as said by System Monitor, goes up to 519.7MB. Top says PV is using 11.6% of memory.</b></font></span></li></ul></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-3243893516087906742WordSection1"><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li class="m_-3243893516087906742MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">Try opening your data with no variables loaded. What is the memory inspector doing? <font color="#ff0000"><b>System Monitor shows 63.8MB used by paraview before loading foam case. And, 336.2MB when loading the case with no variables, just the internalMesh.</b></font></li></ul></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-3243893516087906742WordSection1"><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li class="m_-3243893516087906742MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">How much hardware do you have on your computer? If it’s a new computer with 8 GBytes, that is very different than an old converted machine with .25GBytes. <font color="#ff0000"><b>Motherboard 9 year old computer with 6GB of RAM, which have not given me ANY problem until last few days.</b></font></li></ul></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-3243893516087906742WordSection1"><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li class="m_-3243893516087906742MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">Try looking at your memory footprint (memory inspector, top) BEFORE applying filters. Every filter you use increases memory. <font color="#ff0000"><b>Memory footprint doesn't increase dangerously.</b></font></li></ul></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-3243893516087906742WordSection1"><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li class="m_-3243893516087906742MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">Use filters such as slice (i.e., 2d) rather than clip (3d), and contour (2d) rather than clip by scalar. What I mean here is to create a surface, rather than a solid. Surfaces use
less memory. <font color="#ff0000"><b>That's a good walk around, thanks!</b></font></li></ul></div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="m_-3243893516087906742WordSection1"><ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li class="m_-3243893516087906742MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left:0in">Don’t volume render. It really sucks memory. <font color="#ff0000"><b>Volume render? You mean, like 'streamlines'?</b></font></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Thank very much Shawn!!! i really appreciate your help.</b></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Carlos <br></div></div></div></div>