[vtkusers] TIffReader throws segmentation fault when reading large volume data (> 2GB)

[Mike Jackson]

I am guessing that libTiff or the Tiff Reader in VTK may have a 32bit  
file size limit. The fact that a stack of LESS than 2GB seems to  
indicate this. Just a guess. Can you compile VTK in debug mode and  
then run your program in a debugger? When it seg faults you should be  
able to get a stack trace and try to figure out where things went badly.
-- 
Mike Jackson   Senior Research Engineer
Innovative Management & Technology Services


On Oct 17, 2007, at 4:09 AM, Enkelejda Tafaj wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to read a 5 GB large stack of .tif images using the  
> TIFFReader on a machine with 8 GB of RAM (64-Bit Processor&Kernel).
>
> Reading stacks < 2 GB works fine, for all larger stacks a  
> segmentation fault is thrown. Does anyone know a reason for this?
>
> Thank you for your help,
> Enkeljeda
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