[yt-dev] Memory leak issue with ParallelHOP code

Stephen Skory s at skory.us
Fri Nov 18 13:04:40 PST 2011


Hi all,

> Attached is the memory output plotted of parallelHF with 256 cores, so every
> 256 (in the x axis) it looks like a step function.

That is an unfortunate graph!

> These issues were found before the new optional KDtree was put in by
> Stephen, so that is definitely something we can try.

If you do decide to test out the alternative kD tree for memory
conservation, I would suggest trying a much smaller dataset to begin
with. It is much slower than the Fortran one. I am very curious to
find out what you discover!

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