[vtkusers] large data sets and memory

[L.J. van Ruijven]

Hello Thomas,

Segmentation may indeed solve your problem. However, it is difficult 
to estimate how many segments you will need to use. When I encountered 
this problem on my machine I learned that datasets of 100 MB generally 
worked OK and datasets of 200 MB generally crashed. But I also learned 
that between these limits a program often reported no error at all, 
while its output contained one or more corrupt numbers. So I advise 
you to stay well below your memory limit, because it is not always 
obvious that your output is corrupt.

Although it took a lot of time, I am glad that I switched to Windows 
x64. No more memory problems.

Leo


> ok,
>
> i thought that the problem is something like that. I have used 
VolView 
> to take a look at the data set and it did not crash. so i thought it 
is 
> my fault.
> do you think a possible solution would be a segmentated loading 
> algorithm? so i load only the half dataset and the rest only when 
> needed? hay anyone tried something like this?
>
> thanks


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