Burlen, That looks pretty slick! If I had known earlier I would have started with your code :). Any case, what you have definitely sounds interesting. We should work on integrating the two in the future.
Utkarsh On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Burlen Loring <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Utkarsh, > > Those sound like wonderful additions especially the new transfer function > editor, I can't wait to start using 3.14! > > I want to share some experience re: the memory inspector as I had written > something similar as a source plugin called the Process Monitor a while back > (screen shot attached). In the memory inspector panel it would be useful to > organize the server ranks by host name and display the total memory used on > each host by the pvservers. This sum is necessary to know how close you are > to actually running out. > > It may also be useful to display memory usage as both absolute and % used. > The latter would easily enable adding visual ques to the panel (eg. row > color is changed to red when more than 75% of memory is used on an > individual host) to warn the user that they are in danger of a crash. > > You may want to consider adding an "override" for reporting the amount of > free ram (and % used) when the server is run on an SMP such as NICS > Nautilus. Although Nautilus has 4TB of ram, users need to request a specific > amount of ram per core when submitting a job. The kernel will kill the > process that uses more than the requested amount, so what the system reports > as free memory is fairly useless. > > An old version of the Process Monitor is in the SciVisToolKit plugin, note > that mac server side code is not finished so only windows and linux servers > are currently are handled. The process monitor has a number of additional > debugging features such as the ability to attach gdb to remote servers, and > enable backtrace on sig SEGV etc. > > You should also double check that the memory used value you report is > accurate. When I tested the 3.14 binary I noticed that it reports 4G used > when top reports only using 425m. There may be a bug in your unit > conversion. > > Hope this feedback is useful, I had intended to share this work but just > haven't had the time to finish the mac implementation. It's great that you > have added it! > Burlen > > _______________________________________________ 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
