[vtkusers] Memory allocation error

[Sebastien Valette]

Hi,

You shouldn't have any problem on a linux box with 2Gbytes of memory. I 
was able to process such big meshes without a hitch. On 64 bits machines 
(with much more memory), I went with models as big as 50 millions triangles.

Sebastien


Luca Pallozzi Lavorante a écrit :
> Hi everybody,
> I am trying to create a vtkPolyData object from a huge GOCAD TSurf 
> ASCII file (nearly 10 million triangles). I create geometry with 
> vtkPoints and topology with vtkCellArray and I update these instances 
> while reading the file. Then I associate geometry and topology with an 
> instance of vtkPolyData.
> During the process, i get the following error:
>
> ERROR: In VTK/Common/vtkDataArrayTemplate.txx, line 105
> vtkFloatArray (0x2f8de508): Unable to allocate 103683399 elements of 
> size 4 bytes.
>
> The total memory needed by the above class would be nearly 400 MBytes. 
> I am using a Linux box with 2Gbytes Memory.
> Can somebody tell me whether this memory error is  independent  of  
> VTK?  Is  VTK  capable to work with models with such a big number of 
> triangles (10 million)?
>
> Thanks in advance fo any hint
>  
>      Luca Pallozzi Lavorante
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