tomviz crashes when running out of memory

OpenChemistry / tomviz

Cross platform, open source application for the processing, visualization, and analysis of 3D tomography data

https://tomviz.org/

BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License

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tomviz crashes when running out of memory #822

Open yijiang1 opened 7 years ago

yijiang1 commented 7 years ago

It seems that tomviz crashes if it uses all of the memory. This can easily happen when doing large scale tomographic reconstructions on laptops.

cryos commented 7 years ago

Yeah, this is a tough one to get right, and there are a number of places this can cause crashes. What operating system are you seeing these crashes on? It would be good to improve reliability here, on Linux Tomviz typically gets very slow due to excessive swapping, and may be killed by the kernel after some time due to excessive memory use/swapping but it rarely crashes.

yijiang1 commented 7 years ago

It crashes on Mac OSX.