[Paraview] crashing on megapoint data

Utkarsh Ayachit utkarsh.ayachit at kitware.com
Wed Oct 31 21:12:49 EDT 2012


Try disabling display lists i.e. check "Use Immediate Mode Rendering"
checkbox in the Settings dialog (
http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/Users_Guide/Settings#Render_View_General).

Utkarsh


On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 4:47 PM, Kashiwa, Bucky <bak at lanl.gov> wrote:

> I'm running the vanilla website release of version 3.14.1 on the OS
>
> RedHat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga) Kernel
> 2.6.18-108chaos on an x86_64
>
> This code will display my ~120,000,000 points using cosmo format input,
> but only with a constant color (gray).  If I try to add color, paraview
> sucks up all of the available memory (~22GB) and crashes.  This happens
> with either PointSprites or with EyeDomeLighting View.  (Not sure if it
> happens with plain points or not...)
>
> If you have any suggestions on how to mitigate the crash, I will gladly
> give them a try.
>
> Thanks very much.  Bucky Kashiwa
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