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- From: ciemo@bananapc.csd.sgi.com (Dave Ciemiewicz)
- Subject: Re: IsosurfLat2 Limitations?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.004917.1397@odin.corp.sgi.com>
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- References: <1992Dec23.011833.10963@vax.oxford.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 00:49:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec23.011833.10963@vax.oxford.ac.uk>, leep@vax.oxford.ac.uk writes:
- |>
- |> IsosurfaceLat and IsosurfaceLat2 both crash
- |> on large data sets. The size is not
- |> always the ssame for the lattice, but instead seems
- |> to be a function of the complexity of the surfaces
- |> generated. The limit for a lattice of char variables
- |> is about 1.5M, at which point the helpful error
- |> "segmentation fault" is generated and all other
- |> modules hang. Is this a known bug? Is there a fix?
- |> The isosurflat2 was pulled from swedishchief on Dec.22.
- |>
- |> Is there any pd source available for the marching cubes
- |> algorithm so that I can try and generate the iso-surfaces
- |> external to explorer?
- |>
- |> Cheers,
- |> Peter Lee
-
- Something to check for - does your arenasize exceed the available disk space
- on the disk specified by tempdir (default is /usr/tmp). The shared memory
- arena used by explorer is mapped to a file under the tempdir directory.
- This mapped file acts as the VM swapfile for the arena (not your swap
- partition).
-
- The mapped arena file does not start out attempting to use all of the
- disk space specified by arenasize. As memory is needed, the arena file
- will grow. If it grows past the available memory, weird execution
- behavior will occur and no errors that the arena has grown larger than
- the available disk space will be displayed. I've encountered the kind of
- weird behavior like you are seeing in the circumstances that I had specified
- an arena larger than the disk space that I had. I don't know if this is
- the problem that you are encountering.
-
- --- Dave
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