[vtkusers] why is vtk writer not closing files?

[Burlen]

My bad I just noticed it wasn't vtk but HDF5 sorry!

On Tuesday 17 April 2007 05:24 pm, Burlen wrote:
> Hi I have a application of vtk that process data files converting them into
> vtk format. I'm use the legacy writers and vtk4.4. For each file I process
> I
>
> create some vtk data
> pass data through delaunay filter
> create a new writer
> write data from delaunay filter
> delete everything that was New()'d or Register(0)'d
>
> however the writer seems to be leaving files open, a look into /proc/PID/fd
> as the program runs confirms that the files are piling up until ulimit -n
> is reached at which point I can't open anymore files.
>
> Any one run into to this before?? Any one know what the issue is?? how to
> fix??

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Burlen Loring
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