[Users] Slow reading of Carpet data in visit 2.13

[Miguel Zilhão]

hi Yosef and all,

what you can also try is going to

  Options > Plugin Manager

and there, on the "Databases" tab, you can add "CarpetHDF5_2.1" to the list of Preferred Database 
Plugins.

cheers,
Miguel

On 21/06/2018 19:16, Erik Schnetter wrote:
> Yosef
> 
> Ha! That's a good solution.
> 
> -erik
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 2:11 PM, Yosef Zlochower <yosef at astro.rit.edu <mailto:yosef at astro.rit.edu>> 
> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>        To avoid the slowdown, select "open file as type CarpetHDF5" rather
>     than "open file as type Guess from file name/extension"
> 
> 
>     On 06/04/2018 02:43 PM, Yosef Zlochower wrote:
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>     > Hi,
>     >     I was trying to load CarpetIOHDF5 2D data with visit 2.10 and 2.13. I
>     > compiled both using the build_visit scripts with the --hdf5 option. The
>     > 2.13 takes much longer to load.
>     > 
>     > For example, with a file containing 3 timelevels, 2.10 takes under a
>     > second to load, and 2.13 takes about 7 seconds. This gets much worse as
>     > the number of time levels is increased. It took 2 minutes to open a file
>     > with 10 timelevels in 2.13, but under a second with  2.10
>     > 
>     > Has anyone else seen this? Is there a workaround?
>     > 
>     > 
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