[Paraview] bug in ParaView 3.4.0 server

[Stephen Wornom]

Utkarsh Ayachit wrote:
> Are there any error messages outputted on the server side?
> Can you try this:
> When connected to the server and looking at the outline (which you say
> is rendered fine) go to Edit|Settings. In the Options dialog open up
> the "Render View" tree on the left pane and select "Server". There in
> the "Remote Rendering Paramaters" group ensure that "Remote Render
> Threshold" is set to 0 and checked. Now hit Ok.
The thresh hold was by default 3 mb. When I set it to 0, the client 
crashes each time I try to establish a connection.
Navier> Waiting for server...
ERROR: In /tmp/ParaView-3.4.0/Servers/Common/vtkServerConnection.cxx, 
line 67
vtkServerConnection (0x5dd9240): Server Connection Closed!

Is it important that each cpu has two cores?
Stephen

>  Does the outline still
> render fine? If not I am guess there's some issue with rendering on
> the server side.
>
> Utkarsh
>
> On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 3:46 AM, Stephen Wornom
> <stephen.wornom at sophia.inria.fr> wrote:
>   
>> I am trying to visualize a data set with 500,000 vertices using pv 3.4.0
>> without success.
>>
>> 1-step 1: I start the server with this script
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> #!/bin/sh
>> #PBS -N "Paraview_32"
>> #PBS -l "nodes=16:nef:ppn=2"
>> #PBS -l "walltime=4:00:00"
>> cd $PBS_O_WORKDIR
>> server=`hostname`
>>
>> ulimit -s unlimited
>>
>> echo "The server is listening on host $server "
>> #/usr/local/bin/mpiexec2 /usr/local/paraview/bin/pvserver
>> --use-offscreen-rendering
>>
>> mpiexec --comm=mpich2 /home/install/paraview-340/bin/pvserver
>> --use-offscreen-rendering
>>
>> step 2: I identify which processor is listening on host
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> step 3: I open pv 3.4.0 on the client, enter the server name and host
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> The files are read correctly on the client and the outline of the mesh can
>> be seen on the client screen. When I try to visualize a solution field
>> (points, wireframe, surface) I get the following error.
>>
>> ERROR: In /tmp/ParaView-3.4.0/Servers/Common/vtkServerConnection.cxx,
>> line 67
>> vtkServerConnection (0x5df84f0): Server Connection Closed!
>>
>> step 4: when I do on the server
>> ------------------------------------------
>> ls -al /tmp/ParaView-3.4.0/Servers/Common/vtkServerConnection.cxx
>> I get
>> cannot access /tmp/ParaView-3.4.0/Servers/Common/vtkServerConnection.cxx: No
>> such file or directory
>>
>> step 5: If I copy all the vtu,...etc files to the client and open pv
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 3.4.0, we can visualize the same data with no
>> problems (the paraview server on the server is not used).
>>
>> Can anyone help resolved the problem. I can send all the files to anyone who
>> will help resolve the problem.
>> Thanks,
>> Stephen
>> p.s.
>> The above works correctly with a small mesh (43,000 vertices) using 8-procs.
>> The above was with a mesh (500,000 vertices)using 32-processors.
>>
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