[yt-users] Memory error and yt in parallel

[Nathan Goldbaum]

Hi Jean-Claude

One quick thing to try is to put the contents of the loop inside if a
function call.  This should make it more obvious to oython's garbage
collector that the variables defined inside are temporary.

Nathan

On Sunday, March 2, 2014, Jean-Claude Passy <jcpassy at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I am trying to analyze a unigrid simulation, 512^3 zones. Each dump has a
> size of ~ 7 GB.
> I use the following script to get the angular momenta:
>
> http://paste.yt-project.org/show/4340/
>
> I am running it on a cluster with 1 core and 16GB. It typically runs fine
> for the first 2 dumps, then crashes on the third one when asking for
> AngularMomentumZ. I assume that I must not erase variables correctly. Does
> someone have any suggestion about how to optimize the script?
>
> Also, would that make sense to run the script in parallel or would the
> root grid be duplicated on all processors?
>
> Sorry for the naive questions, and thanks a lot for the help!
> Cheers,
>
> JC
>
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