Sorry, I didn't explain it properly. I have already tried to connect to a pvserver from a GUI running on the client (without an ssh connection then) but it also drains the memory on Xorg. What is the load supposed to be on a client-pvserver connection? Thanks,
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Burlen Loring <[email protected]> wrote: > Jean, > > What you describe is expected. X forwarding doesn't work well for > visualizing large datasets. The point is : don't use X forwarding. The > links show how to configure the client server connection without X > forwarding. Make sure that there is no -X on the ssh command line. > > Burlen > > > On 06/19/2014 11:46 AM, jean mensa wrote: > > When I do that Xorg process on the client drains the memory up until it > crashes. The connection I think is properly established since it works fine > for smaller datasets. What should the load on the client be in that case? > j > > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 2:14 PM, Burlen Loring <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yes, this is expected. The OpenGL calls get piped to your local system. >> This includes data like vertices and colors as well. X forwarding doesn't >> give good performance and with large data it may not even be feasible. >> >> You need to set up client server connection. >> >> http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Reverse_connection_and_port_forwarding >> http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView:Server_Configuration >> http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/Setting_up_a_ParaView_Server >> http://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView_And_Mesa_3D >> >> >> >> >> On 06/19/2014 10:33 AM, jean mensa wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> I have a rather large unstructured pvtu dataset (about 4 million points) >> which I am visualizing on a remote server. I am running the paraview GUI >> (with the multicore option) on the server and I connect to it via ssh >> sharing the X server. In this way I can control the GUI running on the >> serve. I thought that with this configuration I would only receive a >> screenshot of the window and no actual data from paraview but the client >> seems to share at least some of the load of the visualization. Is this the >> expected behaviour? How can I avoid loading data on the client side? >> Thanks in advance, >> >> -- >> *Jean A. Mensa* >> *Graduate Assistant* >> University of Miami >> RSMAS - MPO >> 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway >> Miami, FL 33149-1098 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/paraview >> >> >> > > > -- > *Jean A. Mensa* > *Graduate Assistant* > University of Miami > RSMAS - MPO > 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway > Miami, FL 33149-1098 > > > -- *Jean A. Mensa* *Graduate Assistant* University of Miami RSMAS - MPO 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway Miami, FL 33149-1098
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