Sure, bug now submitted: http://paraview.org/Bug/view.php?id=10702
Thanks, Tobias On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Robert Maynard <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tobias, > Could you please submit a bug > at http://paraview.org/Bug/bug_report_page.php for the memory leak in > XMDF/HDF5 files. > > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 8:19 AM, Tobias Brandvik <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> After doing some more digging, it appears this problem is not only >> related to temporal collections, but all XDMF/HDF5 files with spatial >> collections. If repeatedly open and close a file containing a spatial >> collection, Paraview's memory usage gradually increases until it hangs >> my machine. I observe this in both 3.6 and 3.8 RC2. >> >> Cheers, >> Tobias >> >> --- >> Tobias Brandvik >> PhD Student >> Whittle Laboratory, University of Cambridge >> 1 JJ Thomson Avenue >> Cambridge CB3 0DY, UK >> >> >> On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 12:06 PM, Tobias Brandvik <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > Hi all, >> > >> > I'm experiencing some strange behaviour with the XDMF reader when >> > trying to create an animation of the data contained in a set of HDF5 >> > files. My approach is as follows: >> > >> > 1. One XDMF file which is a temporal collection containing links to a >> > list of other XDMF files >> > 2. One XDMF file for each time step (linked to by the XDMF file >> > above), each of which is a spatial collection of several 2D structured >> > grids. The data for the grids is contained in HDF5 files (also one for >> > each time step). >> > >> > When I open the file with the temporal collection in Paraview, the >> > data shows up as a temporal collection as expected. I can step back >> > and forth in time and everything seems to work just fine. However, as >> > I load in more time steps (by stepping forward in time), Paraview's >> > memory usage keeps increasing. It seems like it is not freeing the >> > memory associated with the old time step when reading in a new one. >> > >> > To illustrate this problem, I've uploaded a collection of XDMF and >> > HDF5 files to the following location: >> > >> > http://www2.eng.cam.ac.uk/~tb302/xdmf_example.tar.gz >> > >> > There are 10 time steps in the collection. The data set is very small, >> > but it should still show the problem (I could easily generate larger >> > data sets if necessary). I get the same behaviour in Paraview 3.6 and >> > 3.8 on both Centos 5.3 (64 bit) and Mac OS X 10.5. >> > >> > Any help would be greatly appreciated. >> > >> > Best wishes, >> > Tobias >> > >> > --- >> > Tobias Brandvik >> > PhD Student >> > Whittle Laboratory, University of Cambridge >> > 1 JJ Thomson Avenue >> > Cambridge CB3 0DY, UK >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > > > -- > Robert Maynard > _______________________________________________ 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
