On the Mac, you can also use Instruments, a fantastic tool. As Utkarsh and Burlen mentioned, running out of memory is a common problem.
Do you get any output to the terminal on Linux (when you start from the terminal)? Anything about exceptions? -berk On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 12:54 PM, burlen <[email protected]> wrote: > You may want to watch PV's memory consumption as the animations progress. > You said "large" and "single workstation", there is a chance that some > operation is taking more memory than you thought it would causing PV to be > killed. PV consuming anything over 80% in my experience is skating on thin > ice. In case you're not familiar with it, the command line tool "top" will > help monitor the situation. > > Dan Lussier wrote: >> >> Hello. >> >> I am running into a problem with Paraview when running animation on large >> (many million nodes/points) data sets. >> >> When I animate and/or save images of each frame from large data sets >> Paraview will perform well for some (but usually variable) length of time >> and then crash. >> >> I have had the same problem on Mac OS X and Linux and have been running on >> single workstations in all cases. >> >> I am not a super experienced Paraview user so am having some trouble >> getting information out of Paraview to diagnose the problem. Any >> suggestions on how to proceed, or on specific system information or crash >> reports that I can get from Paraview would be great. >> >> Many thanks, >> >> Dan Lussier >> University of Oxford >> _______________________________________________ >> Powered by www.kitware.com >> >> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at >> http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html >> >> Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: >> http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView >> >> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: >> http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview > > _______________________________________________ > Powered by www.kitware.com > > Visit other Kitware open-source projects at > http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html > > Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: > http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView > > Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: > http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview > _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the ParaView Wiki at: http://paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.paraview.org/mailman/listinfo/paraview
